It’s strange and beautiful to realise that you can be simultaneously proud of how far you have come and aware that you have barely scratched the surface of who you could become.
Bu kız sırf anlamak için kendini zorlayarak büyük bir anlama kapasitesi geliştirdi, herkesi haddinden ve hatta gereğinden fazla anlamaya başladı. Belki artık delirmedi, sadece üzüldü; ama bu sefer anlaşıldığından çok anladığı için
Your relationship with yourself cannot be built entirely around improvement. At some point, you have to become someone you are allowed to enjoy being. You get to be proud of who you are. Present tense.
we get maybe seventy summers if we’re lucky. seventy times to taste peaches at their peak. seventy Augusts to swim in water so warm it feels like absolution. seventy chances to fall in love with the same person in different ways, or different people in the same way. 3/6
the figs will rot if you don’t eat them. the jasmine blooms for three weeks and then it’s over. your body at twenty-five will never come back, and neither will your body at forty-five. everything you’re saving for later spoils in the waiting. 1/6