I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.
Francesca Marciano
We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.
death
When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.
What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?
You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
happiness
A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.
romance kiss
Telling the truth can be a dirty job.
truth
Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.
heartbreak
I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.
Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.
life people memory
I can't say why some memories float and other sink.
memory
You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.
men
I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed
pain heartache
Passion - eventually it cools.
passion
It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.
past
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