Sufjan Stevens, Fourth of July
scared
i’m scared to get attached
to get used to you here
i feel my heart get involved
and i can see the hurt
that i always fear
in the distance
but growing ever near
i’m scared of how i’ll feel
when you’re no longer here
“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop off your world.”
— Jodi Picoult
“What happens when you don’t find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn’t great, everything isn’t perfect, but it’s nice and sweet?”
— Miranda Kenneally
“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.”
— Elizabeth Smart
