“ I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. ”
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
~ Robert Goolrick
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.
Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.