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101 " Lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow - still lovely. "
― Emery Lord , When We Collided
102 " Most of her pieces look, to the untrained eye, like a total mess. A joyful, colorful, total mess. It is not so hard to see how she made me, too. "
103 " He made the simple classics so well that they tasted brand-new again. "
104 " You try to convince yourself you feel the same. But you don't. Your feelings fill the room like an angry fire. Your feelings for her could blow the glass out of the windows. "
105 " I am honestly trying to live this life while I can. The emotion swells around me, into this huge, humid feeling that I must be doing something right. "
106 " I also know that emotions come from the brain. So why do people feel real aches in their chests? Why does it feel like we carry every feeling in our cores? "
107 " I always think I don't believe in God because I don't go to church and I don't care what people do as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. But if that's true, then why do I mumble to a higher being sometimes? Please help me, I ask sometimes. "
108 " That's the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn't mean it failed. [...] It's perfect for what it is, and then it's gone. "
109 " My mind feels like an envelope that is too overstuffed to close. So I take some of the stuff out. ... None of these things feel good to think about. But it makes room in my brain. "
110 " You’re not taking your pills, are you?” “YES! I! AM!” I am taking them. Well, one of them. The other, I’m taking, too! To the cliff every day so I can watch them fall to their deaths. "
111 " I watch the waves swell and break down the coastline, swell and break. My chest threatens to crack on the left side.The heart is such a strange little beast - a lump of thick muscle with pipes sticking out. Sometimes I think my heart is made of rubber, and the world stretches it and twists so that it writhes in my chest and aches. This is why I have spent most of my time on this planet here but hurting. Sometimes I think a hear of porcelain would be easier. Let it drop out of my rib cage and break on the floor, no heartbeat, the end. Instead, I get a bouncy heart that bleeds when the world claws at it but keeps beating though the pain. "
112 " Cognitively, I recognize my good fortune. But I don't feel lucky. I want to start my whole life again-like I want to float my soul back up to the cosmos and come down as a different girl, in a different life. "
113 " I guess it's like seeing beauty in simplicity and nature. In fleeting moments and even in decay. "
114 " My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it "
115 " Sometimes I wonder if she's whispering to hear heart: Beat. Beat. Beat. To her lungs: In, out. In, out. Like it takes all her time and energy to exist. "
116 " Her laugh sounds like wind chimes. "
117 " Because it's all so fleeting, isn't it? The ocean existed so long before us and will stay long after us - most trees, too, and some animals. Isn't that crazy? "
118 " You know, some people act like every kid is entitled to two responsible, loving parents. I don't feel like that's a given. We're born alone, and we die alone. If you get an adult who's genuinely there for you, that's pretty lucky. "