minichan

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

— WILLIAMS, Robin.

I saw myself in your eyes but I saw that you were dead.
— GARCÍA LORCA, Federico, from Little Backwater; Collected Poems (ed. by Christopher Maurer).

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.
— HALE, Mandy.

learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally.

Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light.
~ DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor, The Brothers Karamazov.