Elizabeth Scott
Elizabeth Scott
mother father love-you
Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.
fall thinking wish
I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.
fall heart wind
..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.
thinking perfect people
I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.
chocolate wish stories
The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.
moving grief loss
I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.
should-have normal scared
I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.
heart feelings holes
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
cute mean kids
That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.
world darling
Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.
beautiful thinking love-is
I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.
dream people waking
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.
hands would-be remember
I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.
world wanted loses
Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.