Justmecrashingout - A Million Miles

Ignore me, and I promise, I won’t bother you again. Just because I cared doesn’t mean I’m here to let you destroy my self-respect. I loved you, I really did, but the moment you started dimming my worth, I chose to walk away. I’m done.

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”

―Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

We’ve never existed in each other's world - only this pull I can't explain. Life has kept us apart, cruel and constant, but still, I wait with a heart wide open, because something in me already knows you.

“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

— Lisa Kleypas

twenty years across the sea

—Sylvia Plath, Letter to Aurelia Plath, 4th May 1962