#relatable

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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#relatable #truth #life

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

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#disappointment #relatable #courage

I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon be telling me our life was declined. Everything, everyone had reached their limits with me. ↗

— Joshua Mohr

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#life #metaphor #relatable #life