( ❝she said you're pretty good with words but words won't save your life❞ )

[moirae]

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ANON

[girlmecha]

❝I hate that feeling when you're about to cry and someone asks you if there's anything wrong or to cheer you up and you try to smile but you physically can't do it and eventually the effort of trying to smile for this one person has the tears spilling over. It makes me feel so defeated by life when I can't find the strength to smile in these moments.❞

WINNIE THE POOH ; A. A. MILNE

[girlmecha]

❝If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.❞

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ;

[moirae]

❝I give up. I see not point in living if I can't be beautiful.❞

NEW ROMANTIC ; LAURA MARLING

[moirae]

❝I will never love a man, 'cause love and pain go hand in hand, and I can't do it, again. I will never love a man 'cause I could never hurt a man, not in this new romantic way.❞ &hearts

MIDDLESEX ; JEFFREY EUGENIDES

[moirae]

❝Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on my aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I' like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.❞