❝Death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it’s death.❞

❝Maybe relationships could have fractals too. And maybe that sense of loss was when you’re becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.❞

❝Best friends. Who set up that phrase? Who made it a competition?❞

❝Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?❞

❝The things your love are the things that will destroy you.❞

❝Venn diagram, those two overlapping circles. And how the translation of “You remind me of someone” is that piece in between, that common space that’s the only piece we’re seeing.❞

❝Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.❞

❝Why is it that I’m always forced to see people at the exact time I don’t want anyone to see? Why is life so cruel?❞

❝There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it’s a bearable one.❞

❝I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues for reasons. But the past resists that. It hold too much evidence of too many things.❞

❝I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.❞

❝Ours wasn’t the kind of friendship where I knew the exact day it started . I only knew the exact day it became essential.❞

❝If you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself—then you lose the other person, you lose yoursefl entirely. You get so close you can’t see anything anymore. Your mind becomes all these abstract fragments. English becomes math.❞

❝Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.❞

❝My mother said I should have a ‘change of scenery.’ The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.❞