I don’t believe in a small break. I feel a break is a break, and if it starts small, it only gets wider. So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
Just be warned”, you said. “Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it’s going to get ugly.
I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.
Even though the own world doesn’t matter to her, she matter to the world.
We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
Neil doesn’t really think Peter is cheating on him. He doesn’t think Peter would ever cheat on him. That’s not what this is about. It’s about Neil’s fear that Peter will want to cheat on him, that he will someday realize there’s someone better out there.
People say you should wait to be with someone you love, but I think it’s more important to be with someone you like.
I would have always been the captain. But now you’re in charge.
There was a time before you but I can’t remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I’m sure I lived without you but I don’t remember how can’t imagine living without these feelings you’ve produced.
Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
After that, I promised myself I wouldn’t get into any more virtual entanglements, as easy as they might seem to be. Because what’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?
We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn’t as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.
In my mind, there are two kinds of looking. There’s the kind of looking that is respectful, almost magical, where you observe something without daring to touch it. And then there’s the kind of looking that’s like slurping a Coke.
I don’t like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?
The phrase rush to judgement is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don’t have have to rush. We don’t have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is easy to reach for.
It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.
Life fails. Songs don’t always.
To swim is to transform yourself into an unnatural creature, to take on an element that should not be your own. To swim is to experience the world differently, or to experience a different world temporarily.
I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone.
My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.