“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.”
— Deb Caletti
You hate everything about me, why do you love me?
Three Days Grace's "I Hate Everything About You" (2003)
“But when I make her laugh, swear it cures my depressing thoughts”
-the weeknd; here we go… again ft. tyler, the creator
Help in Time (Charles Verlat, 1872)
“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”
— Javson Johnson, “Building”
“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”
— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
me rereading my own poems: what the fuck do you mean by that
“What's eating you alive / Might help you to survive / And even the nights, they could get better / And even the days ain't all that bad”
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Me and Mia
“It’s rare to meet someone with a mind just as beautiful as their face.”
— Unknown
“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023)