Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
Ellen HopkinsGrown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
Ellen HopkinsAs the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
Ellen HopkinsLove is for children and dimwads.
Ellen HopkinsBut then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
Ellen HopkinsHe has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
Ellen HopkinsLove is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Arctic winter.
Ellen HopkinsPerfect?
How
do you define a word without
concrete meaning? To each
his own, the saying goes, so
why
push to attain an ideal
state of being that no two
random people will agree is
where
you want to be? Faultless.
Finished. Incomparable. People
can never be these, and anyway,
when
did creating a flawless facade
become a more vital goal
than learning to love the person
who
lives inside your skin?
The outside belongs to others.
Only you should decide for you---
what
is perfect
Perfection
I've lived with the pretense
of perfection for seventeen
years. Give my room a cursory
inspection, you'd think I have OCD.
But it's only habit and not
obsession that keeps it all orderly.
Of course, I don't want to give
the impression that it's all up to me.
I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?
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