“I could’ve been the only good thing. We could’ve called it love.”Tagged: what ifs, Unrequited Love, Good Things, Love
“there are still things I can’t admit. there are still things I can’t believe I did to make you love me.”Tagged: Love, Breaking Up, Breakups
“the good news is I survived knowing you. the bad news is you were something I had to survive.”Tagged: Breakups, surviving, Toxic Relationships
“I need you to be a monster / which is to say, I am trying not to love you / which is to say, I am still dreaming of kissing your claws.”Tagged: Love, Difficult To Love, monsters
“we loved each other until we didn’t. there is no way to turn this into poetry.”Tagged: Love, Poetry, Falling Out Of Love
“I am sorry. I am sorry. there is no grace in trying not to love you anymore. look away if you have to. there is no grace here.”Tagged: Sorrys, Love, Leaving, Moving On
“there is something that appeals to us about being the main character in a story this awful.”Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Addicted To Love
“you’re clumsy in love falling into it like the summer you stumbled into a cactus during a game of tag and had to pull the stickers out one by one.”Tagged: Love, Clumsy in Love, Messy
“I won’t ever tell them the bad things because I like being the good one.”Tagged: Relationships, Love
“I hurt myself just to prove I can. I smoke cigarettes I don’t want and drink liquor that comes in plastic bottles. I fall asleep drunk and screaming at love: LOOK. YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DESTROY ME. LOOK. I CAN DO IT MYSELF.”Tagged: Love, Breakups, Toxic Relationships
“Our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”Tagged: Intimacy, Love, Dating, Finding The One, My Favorites
“our toothbrushes sitting in a cup on the edge of the sink are the most intimate thing I have ever known.”Tagged: Poetry, Love, Relationships, Growing Up, Commitment
“The stubble on your face is a quiet reminder of how much growing we have left to do.”Tagged: Growing, Love, Reminders, Poetry
“You are offering me a place to lay my head and it is the best thing I’ve ever been given.”Tagged: Love, New Love, Falling In Love