26 Quotes by Nathan Filer

Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, regardless of how much you hope.

Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[...]

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.