’s a rare enough thing to find someone who can see me the way I am, no less to peer down into dark parts of my heart, the parts of me even I don’t want to look at
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
I love you, you see—and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn’t terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
Even when I freed myself, I found new chains
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
We all wind up drawn to what we’re afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
Maybe this was who she always was. Always shoving all that muchness down deep inside her where no one had to see
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
Time is the only thing any of us do have
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
But if you didn’t believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we’re stripped bare
Jose Alfredo Corona Ruizhas quoted6 months ago
If she was so fierce, how come she didn’t just save herself?”