You think you’ve let things go. You think you’ve moved on, but some people, they just have this hold on you. It’s like no matter what happens, or how much time passes, the door is always open for them - whether you want it to be or not.
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Sometimes I can’t help but look back on us. I overanalyze every single moment. I try to pinpoint the exact place where things went wrong – the point of no return. I crave an understanding of how two people who were happy together suddenly became strangers. I think it was a series of things, little things, that added up. I made us out to be very happy together, when in fact, we were very flawed.
“She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.”
— The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward–that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
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