You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.