25 Quotes by Leah Stewart

I want to be alone. I don’t want to be alone. My days pop like bubbles. There is no one to remember the things that have happened to me.

Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they’d let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

They say there’s peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire’s absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

When you’re young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She.

I’d always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal.

How they’d started out so much in love, and how things had slowly gone wrong, and how she’d tried, she’d tried, she’d tried. How whenever she resolved to leave Tommy, she’d succumb to sorrow and nostalgia, yes, but mostly she could just never resist her stupid, primal attraction to him, and one of those times they’d conceived Milo.

She couldn’t be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

Adult friendship doesn’t grant you an exclusive, isn’t meant to be ranked above romance and family.