53 Quotes by Corey Ann Haydu

I feel stupid for thinking the future was going to be easy and simple and ours.

Traditions don’t come out of nowhere. They come from something sacred and strange.

That’s the thing about anxiety: It’s a real time suck.

It’s strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions.

I am a vacation. I am the Caribbean, and a fruity drink and a sunburn and a break from real life. But I am not real life. No one lives in the Caribbean. No one wants a fruity drink every day. I’d rather be water: necessary.

Sometimes I think feelings are bigger than people. More powerful. They make people do things that can’t be undone. I used to think feelings were part of a person, but lately I’ve been thinking they are separate beings, that they come like aliens and invade people’s bodies and cause destruction.

We’re goddamn witches. Don’t tell us we can’t.

An ache is just an ache: something that settles into your heart and reminds you that love is there even if the person you love isn’t.