“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
“I wanted to believe that I deserved it. All of that pain. Otherwise I didn’t understand why I just accepted it. Thinking that I’d just accepted it for months was worse.”— Sue Zhao // “Let’s talk about abusive relationships”
“How was I supposed to tell you what I was feeling?“ she said, “I didn’t want to ruin your day. “I am so many things but I won’t be the weight on your ankle, if I drown I won’t ask you to come with me.”— S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #227 (via blossomfully)
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”— Stephen King, Joyland
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““I think I wait for people to hurt me,” she said quietly, “and when they do I feel a certain smugness at being right. And, after that, I just feel pain.”— Sue Zhao
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
It might just be me but.. Do you ever not want to go to bed to avoid that feeling when you wake up the next morning; you feel like everything is fine and then 10 seconds later everything thats wrong hits you all over again.
