Discover Top Posts Tagged with #terrible realization

I was wondering if you were sincere. Now I know. You're not.

Susan Minot, from Why I Don't Write and Other Stories

Not me crying over the fact Brain’s tail is zig zag because of the electric shock from his classical conditioning trauma 😭

Before electric shock:

Directly after the treatment:

I’m devestated- I am so sorry

two year old cousin, sobbing and yelling

me: child, why do you scream?

I was suddenly shocked, nearly bowled over, by how utterly pathetic the situation was. The situation meaning my life.

Caro Claire Burke, from Yesteryear

Into the silence that stretched between us came the cold, sickening realization that I had made a colossal miscalculation.

Jessica Gross, from Open Wide

Panic engulfed me, quick as a tide . . . The first laps, when things might still turn out all right, and the wave of realisation that they will not.

Abigail Dean, from The Death of Us

He began gradually to see the whole hideousness of what had happened.

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Maybe my brain decided to end itself when it learned about all that's wrong with my life.

Katherine Lin, from You Can't Stay Here Forever

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