I want to know what it means to survive something. Does it just mean I get to keep my body?

∆ Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party, We All Got Burnt That Summer

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. -Samuel J Hewitt

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement...Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.

when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw

we never stopped sharing location even though we have long stopped sharing words

Razbliuto (Russian) The feeling a person has for someone they once loved but no longer do.

Practice exiting quickly. Leave only your laughter in the air behind you when you've been invited to fulfill someone else's fantasy that's not you.