“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”“So what I’m trying to say is you
“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There’s less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”“We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.” ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories -- source link
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