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“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”
- Neil Gaiman
(Source: slekes, via losingmyselfagain)
I think the mistake is that people commit to who that person is right then and not the person they’re going to become. That’s the art of staying together, changing together.”
— Justin Timberlake
“You were unsure which pain is worse — the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
— Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
— Charles Bukowski
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
“Everything is where he left it that morning. If I keep it that way it will be like he never left. His cellphone hasn’t even been disconnected. If I keep calling him, if I leave everything as it was when he left that morning then he could still come back. And I won’t be alone again. I - I don’t think I can do this without him.”
— Sophia Hunt, a quote from my short story: Sultan’s Empress
my own original character and story.
Sophia to Prince Harry four months later
(Source: empressofthemoonandstars)