XXVI

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[thesecretletter]

You wanna know what it feels like to not feel anything? It’s not caring about anything. Not that I don’t, I just can’t. About myself, grades, my future. It’s not knowing anything, how to respond, so I avoid the situation. My brain feels like static, a low hum that eventually hurts if I think about it too much. It’s feeling something then pushing it down and saying no because what else am I supposed to do. It’s all I can do. I’m aware that this is probably the reason everyone runs away from me and that hurts, but nothing hurts more than when it’s taken from you and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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[thelovewhisperer]

Everyone is so caught up in their own heartache, they never stop to realize that other people feel things, too. We’re all so convinced that “nobody knows how I feel,” we don’t open our eyes wide enough. Overlooking the people that could help us, we go on with our lives, living in self-created prisons – prisons within our own minds.

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[bryantmcgill]

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

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[bryantmcgill]

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

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[bryantmcgill]

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

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[kushandwizdom]

[thelovewhisperer]

I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them.

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[swordfishtrombones]

David Bowie was offered a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 and unlike Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John or Sir Mick Jagger, he turned it down:

“I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don’t know what it’s for. It’s not what I spent my life working for.”

And this is why he was the best.

[thelovewhisperer]

It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite. — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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[bryantmcgill]

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

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[bryantmcgill]

As your hopes and desires disappear, you emerge.

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[bey]

No offense but I wanna set you on fire

[thelovewhisperer]

Sometimes you have to stop waiting for someone to come along and fix whats wrong. Maybe you have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize that no one else has the answer. Sometimes, you have to be your own hero.

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[hplyrikz]

You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.

Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy (via downwiththedown)

[whisperthatruns]

Frequently, retelling a story involves a kind of violation. This is not to condemn the act of retelling, but to describe one easily forgotten part of its nature. The act of recounting, whether personal or historical, often involves transforming the people or events of the past into objects we can use in the present. It does not matter whether we praise or vilify the dead—the full complexity of their lives usually gets lost as we remember them for purposes and in contexts which they cannot share. Those who reconstruct the past are grave robbers. Some treat the corpse with respect, while others mutilate it. Either way, we all rob graves.

Kenneth S. Greenberg, in his introduction to The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996)

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[lonesomefuelforfire]

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[thelovewhisperer]

Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition no one is ever going to fill that space, the best you can do is know yourself, know what you want.

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