"i play dead, it stops the hurting. i play dead and the hurting stops. it’s sometimes just like sleeping, curling up inside my private tortures. i nestle into pain, hug suffering, caress every ache."
"You didn’t love her. You just didn’t want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn’t love her, because you don’t destroy the person that you love."
Callie Torres, ‘The Heart of the Matter’ (via comatosis)
"There’d be no Mystery Jets without him, but maybe one day I’ll be touring with another band and I’ll realise how cool it was having my dad on tour with me. When I’m with the band I call him Henry. But do you want to know something really embarrassing? When we’re on our own I still call him Daddy."