a tourist in the waking world

k-petrova:

“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, ‘Okay, life’s a fact.’ People DO fall in love. People do belong to each other. Because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness. You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, yet you’re terrified that somebody’s gonna put you in a cage. Well, baby, you’re already in a cage and you built it yourself. And it’s not bound on the east by Somali Land or on the west by Tulip, Texas. It’s everywhere you go. Because no matter where you run, you’re always going to end up running into yourself.”