It's both and it's not a good thing.
I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
John Green
Why now? Well, duh. Dad disowns us. Grace isn’t Grace. Ben’s.. gone. Now just felt like a good a time as any to find out who I could’ve been if I didn’t grow up in this stupid family.
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
Neal Shusterman
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…
Nicholas Sparks
the rnm writers escalating from “alex is missing and nobody notices or cares” to “alex is missing and people have noticed but only care so far as it’s an inconvenience to them that they can’t get a hold of him” is exactly what i should have expected from them. to the point that i’m honestly shocked i didn’t anticipate it more.
One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.
Beau Taplin