Maybe the modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
Stephen Chbosky - ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever
Maybe you will never be able to forgive me, but I wanted you to know I had the best intentions―and I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you.
I don’t get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who’s hurt them? Maybe it’s an ego thing—being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.
Allison van Diepen, The Oracle of Dating (via simply-quotes)
