Death of a Dream

Grief was a miserable emotion. A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was the death of a dream—the future you’d imagined with a lover, a loved one, a child, or a friend. That loss was its own painful, nearly tangible thing. You had to reimagine your future, perhaps in a different place, with different people, doing different things than you might have first imagined.

-Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires)

Expectations

Higher expectations
also mean
Higher chance of being disappointed.

And I hate that feeling.

Roulette

"But a time came when you did make a decision," he said.
"There's only red or black."
"Red or black?"
"Like in roulette. One is no more right or wrong than the other. You can think as long as you like about which color's more likely to win, but it doesn't help you. You think it over, back and forth, but in the end you don't have any influence over it."
...
"It's just the way it is. You can't evaluate it."

-Arcadia Awakens

Need

I hate to admit it, but...
I always end up needing others...
more than they need me...
Like a one-sided love...
it's such a lonely feeling...

I Know You

Even if there is no light, we will still be connected by our shadows.
-Pandora Hearts

Loneliness

Loneliness is something that can only be felt when you have people by your side.