Quotes from work

The Realm of Possibility

“why won't they
leave me
alone?
don't they
realize I
have a
tinder heart
and a
paper body
and that
any spark
will turn me
straight to ash?”

“Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

“Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.”

“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”

“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”

“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

“I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.”

“seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope”

“iv.

who was it
who invented
size zero?

who was it
who promised
that if you got
to a certain point
you would no
longer
be?”

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”

“having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.”

“Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”

“I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.”

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

“I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him.”