"SLIPS ARE TOTALLY NORMAL. WHEN you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide."
Sanki asıl öldürmek istediğim şey o derinin altında ya da başparmağımın altında atan o ince mavi damarda değil, başka bir yerde, daha derinde, daha gizli ve ulaşması çok daha güç bir yerdeydi.
I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?