Nathaniel Tardie > Nathaniel's Quotes

“dear empathy,
please stop telling me
that it’s okay when they hurt me
stop allowing me to accept
the knife you see in their side
is a reasonable excuse
for them to put two in mine
please stop introducing me to their demons
i don’t want to shake hands
with the reasons
they can’t seem to stay
please stop waving a white flag
and making me pity their anger
and make peace with their madness”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“they told me my job description but i think i’ve got it wrong. they said i was supposed to man the lighthouse and save lost ships from going down.
but every time i saw the ships i forgot about the light. i dove headfirst into the sea and swam to save their life.
  i drowned us both in the process; the ships never found the shore. i ended up helping less when i meant to be helping more.
  i think when they told me to save people with my light, i mistook their words and tried to save people with my life.
  i know i should have turned the light on, i know i should have taken their advice, but i don’t know what love is if it is not sacrifice.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“you are not a second choice they didn’t choose you not because you are not worthy but because they weren’t built to love you i know their arms feel like they were supposed to carry you but their lack of strength is not a testimony of the weight of your soul but rather the weakness of theirs you are not too much”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“Loving you
felt like leaving a book out in the wind
the pages turned too fast for me to read
I dient get enough time
to adore you
to explore you
to trace your lines with my fingertips
and reread my favorite parts
to live the story I knew we we meant to be
before I knew it
the book was closed
the story was over
- unfinished”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“i told you that you remind me of springtime
and i didn’t lie
i just forgot that seasons are temporary
you can’t tell spring to stay
the same way
you can’t ask the sun not to set
but sometimes
i can close my eyes
and remember the feeling of sunlight
the smell of a fresh start
and the sound of birds singing again
thank you for reminding me
that things will be good again
even if it was only for a season”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“i know that right now you want to run to them
but closed arms will not hold you
and careless hearts will not heal you”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“I think I am the kind of person
that people fall in love with
too quickly
And I dont mean to complain
because it is wonderful to be loved
but I am also the kind of person
that people walk way from
when they realize
the beautiful pool of water
that they wandered into
is actually an ocean
with too many questions
I wish my company
didnt make people feel
like theyre drowning
mystery draws them in
then mystery makes them leave”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“nothing bites harder than my own expectations”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“people with the most intricate minds have the most turmoil inside you cannot be filled with the galaxies and not expect explosions”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“It is never selfish to take care of your heart, if you need to move, then move.
If you need to stay, then stay.
Don't let anyone else dictate where your peace lands.”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“I don't know how to love small
so if I can't love you a lot
I can't love you at all”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“I am not very good at taking criticism.
I know you weren't criticizing me when you decided to be with her.
But it feels like everything you give her that you couldn't give me is a statement of my faults.
I imagine you kiss lines down her body that spell out all of the reasons I am unlovable.”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“for once i wanted someone to be so sure of me
that everything else disappears.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“all the parts you think are broken or missing, love will put them back.”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“I hurt someone else
when I was trying to fix what you broke
I tried to blame you
But I realized I became you”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“i can’t tell if my expectations for love are far too high or far too low”
― Whitney Hanson, Climate

“I have a bad habbit
of clinging to the people and places
that have been hurting me
today I asked myself to explain why
because sometimes
it doesn't make sense to me either
this is the conclusion I have come to
I stay because although im treated poorly
I find comfort in the surety
of knowing exactly what I'm getting
moving on is a commitment to uncertainty
and things could always be worse
on the other side of a big jump

I have never been good with risk
I don't like to gamble
I like control”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“I pierced my ear and it got infected
for weeks my ear was red and swollen
I knew that if I just took the earring out
I could heal much faster
but I thought the earring
made me feel beautiful
so I let it stay
- toxic relationships”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“hatred doesn’t need to be the product of my hurt.”
― Whitney Hanson, Home

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down