Every Heart a Doorway

You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

“That’s because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole,”

The dead deserve more dignity, not less. Dignity is all the dead possess.

Sumi was not a screamer. Sumi was a reason for other people to scream.

Older than I look, younger than I ought to be. My skin is a riddle not to be solved, and even letting go of everything I love won’t offer me the answer.

So we go running for the tallest trees and the deepest holes whenever we want to be alone, and since there’s a limited number of those, we wind up spending a lot of time together.

We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

“Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,”

It was the way she carried herself: too mature for the body she inhabited, too weary for the face she wore.

Hope hurts. That’s what you need to learn, and fast, if you don’t want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there’s nothing left.