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”The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think.
Stephen King
(Source: venula)
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It seems incredible to me, how we let the smallest of inconveniences sour our day. A split coffee, a missed train, stepping into a puddle… When the really terrible things happen we beg for the little horrors, to take away the massive hits and replace them with the annoyances. It seems quaint now, doesn’t it; the forgotten umbrella on a rainy day, the fight that leaves you shaking with rage…. Would it help if we could see what was coming? We would have known that those were the best moments of our lives?
I doubt it.
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”When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
John Green
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