More Happy Than Not

This is still an ugly world

“I have nothing to forget, and I wouldn’t if I did,” Thomas says. “Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it’ll be okay eventually. You?”

Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.

“Everyone’s going to expect smiles from us,” I say.
“Everyone can go suck it,”

We all make mistakes. Every wrong job I take is a mistake, but it’s also a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it’s a step away from the wrong one.

happiness comes again if you let it.

no one would have any problem forgetting that I existed.

where the fuck my place is in this fucking universe that fucked me over

You know your capabilities and circumstances

I clasp his forearm.