I seriously feel so fat sitting in a booth at Ihop with oomf…
“It’s strange to be so physically close to someone who’s so distant.”
— Suzanne Collins
“Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.”
— Shannon Hale
His eyes are like the colour of a sunset through a glass of whiskey. But people are listening and so you keep it simple and say they are brown.
And you wonder why you have to tamper things down like too much of one sense is a bad thing, like it’s not more boring to un-feel.
“Our relationship might be dead, but I still get a thrill in my stomach when I think I might see you again. Your eyes haunt me like a tune that’s stuck in my head. No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to put these feelings to bed. I try to remember you took razor blades to my heart many times…leaving me broken and bleeding inside. But, I see ghosts of you in the faces of people I pass by; I’m jonesing hard to have you by my side. Maybe someday I’ll let the memories of you die, and I’ll undo the knot that has our souls tied. Until then, I’m linked to you across oceans and between skies…I’ll never forget you were the first to bring my heart to life.”
— Ghost Feelings
“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”
—
Siegfried Sassoon
“It takes a special someone to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”
—
Shannon Messenger