We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too.
Congratulations! I have started lying to you.
Both, the manner and the matter of what we say are equally important. Watch your speech.
The world is as narrow or as vast as one cares to imagine.
Finally the 11 PM thread holding our joy together snapped too. No more waiting is to be done to hear and tell moments during the day we missed each other. No exclusive sq. ft. left for me. A dead heart beat that's all I am now. That's what I always have been.
Anyone who brightens my dark side has a super special place in my heart. They alone know me truly, experience me totally. Cheers to such people who explore the nakedness of others and their own souls.
Anxiety stems from shame. It is the idea that who you are or what you are doing is “not right,” therefore eliciting a rush of energy designed to help you “fix” or change it. You’re suffering because there’s nothing you can fix to make that urgent, panicked feeling go away. It’s a mismanaged perception of who and how you are.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera