Emiry's thoughts

Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reason to be sad. The person you knew exists somewhere, but you are separated by too much time to reach them again.

It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Do you ever think about all the people who you might have fallen in love with if only you’d taken a different way home or stood a little longer in the bread aisle at the supermarket? All the people who might have been an integral part of your life but instead you’ll never know them. The unimaginable impact that our mundane choices have on our lives really gets to me. Think of how many times I might have died if I’d made different choices. Maybe I’d be homeless. Maybe I’d be famous. Maybe I’d be rich. Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the impact of my choices that I can’t choose anything at all because I’m afraid today will be the day that I make the choice that changes everything.

I’m so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Everyone’s just looking for reasons to wake up and get out of bed, some do it for nothing but a kiss, perhaps a cup of coffee, others have a harder time; no train to catch, no hand to hold, no reasons at all.

Too often, the only escape is sleep.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.