“When you love someone you have chosen to relinquish a part of yourself in order to inherit a part of them, and what perpetuates that love is the feeling of confident appreciation for such a potentially debilitating trade. That’s why heartbreak feels like a sudden void.”
— Samuel Armen
“But who knows why we really do anything? Who knows why we do what we do when we do it? Why your local barista greeted you with a curt ‘hi’ instead of her usual, mellifluous-sounding ‘hello’ has a trillion justifications. So, why someone decides to commit suicide might take a while to explain, and a lifetime to begin comprehending…”
— Samuel Armen
“The wind considers how trauma is – in essence – just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.”
— Samuel Armen
“She spoke to him of her problems, and that made him forget his own. She told him that he was intelligent, thoughtful, becoming, and deeply magnetic – everything he wanted so badly for her to see in him. Attention is the greatest gift when you’re too afraid to pay it to yourself, the wind ruminates.”
— Samuel Armen