KR

writings, poems, and other things

[wordsfromthebasement]

"He was trying to dazzle her. But dazzle was a lot like romance-fantastic while it lasted, but it never lasted long enough."

- Finale, 11

[wordsfromthebasement]

"She seems like a quiet person, but not the shy kind of quiet. She's quiet in a fierce way--a storm that sneaks up on you, and you don't know it's there until you feel the thunder rattle your bones."

-Reminders of Him, 30

[wordsfromthebasement]

"I feel like I've lived most of my life in my imagination, taking the smallest moments and dreaming them up into something bigger. A little exchange and I fall in love, a moment to myself and I'm on stage, but reality always finds a way of pulling me back."

- Lexi Howard, Euphoria

[wordsfromthebasement]

best gift ever 🩶

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Nothing is over for someone who tries."

- KR

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart."

- My So-Called Life

[wordsfromthebasement]

"They're no better than anyone else after all, he would realize. In the end, they're jealous and trying to make me feel bad. And I'm stupid, because I do feel bad."

- A Little Life, 251

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Nate didn't understand why, at seventeen, you had to map out your entire life. There would be plenty of time for more school after taking a year or two off to sail around the Caribbean or go skiing in Chile. And yet, all of his classmates at the St. Jude's School for Boys were planning to go straight to college and straight to grad school after college"

- You Know You Love Me, 8

[wordsfromthebasement]

"I stayed in that damn phone booth for quite a while. I kept holding onto the phone, sort of, so I wouldn't pass out. I wasn't feeling too marvelous, to tell you the truth."

- The Cather in the Rye, 168

[wordsfromthebasement]

"All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder. A little while later, I still had it with me when I and Brossard and Ackley got on the bus. The bus driver opened the doors and made me throw it out. I told him I wasn't going to chuck it at anybody, but he wouldn't believe me. People never believe you."

- The Catcher in the Rye, 42

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Maybe it would be nice to confess to someone that most of the time he could barely relate to what was being discussed, that he couldn't participate in everyone else's shared language of childhood pratfalls and frustrations. But then he would stop himself, for admitting ignorance of that language would mean having to explain the one he did speak."

- A Little Life, 108

[wordsfromthebasement]

" I want to be great, or nothing."

- Amy March

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Oh, how Tella wished she was his weakness. She'd have loved to destroy him."

- Stephanie Garber

[wordsfromthebasement]

"Beth's bundle was such a funny one that everybody wanted to laugh, but nobody did, for it would have hurt her feelings very much."

- L.M. Alcott

[wordsfromthebasement]

"I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart...I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly."

- Sylvia Plath

[wordsfromthebasement]

Back to the hotel room

fumble with the key

thinking how you took the best part of me

-KR