Them other boys, I don’t give a damn
I’m the man, come round
How the absence of someone else feels like the absence of myself
it is actually really sweet when someone stays up late to talk to you
in another universe, you fought for us instead of not even trying.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (2009) dir. Chris Weitz
I remember a lot of people bitching about this in the book (and then later the movie). For me, though, best representation of depression, as it affects me anyway, that I’ve ever seen. Days pass and they’re just. Blank. They may as well just not have happened at all.
I don’t like giving Meyer credit for much but I’ll give her that.
Else Fitzgerald, from “Everything Feels Like the End of The World,” publ. in 2022