“You do not need another heart to make yours beat, despite popular misconception.”Tagged: Independence, Relationship, Beliefs, Love
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”Tagged: Life, Others
“You were better to the ones that were worse for you. And worse to the one that was better for you.”Tagged: Despair
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”Tagged: Conversations, Discussions, Connection
“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this! And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, No. This is what’s important.”Tagged: worries, Priorities, Following Your Heart
“There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite.”Tagged: Love, romance, Passion, Sacrifice, Pain
“And when I asked you how you’d been, I meant I missed you more than I’ve ever missed anything before.”Tagged: Love, Missing People
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”Tagged: Softness, Soft, Be Soft, humanity, Being human
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin.”Tagged: Touch, Love, Lust, Desire, Sex
“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Overcoming, Overcoming Obstacles, Rising To Challenges
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go
“Only a hard heart shatters. Only a hard heart breaks.”Tagged: Love, Breakups, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Healing, Change, Permanence
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts.”Tagged: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Change, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges
“Things just break sometimes. Maybe we should blame the third person we became, that personality we shared together. Maybe it's their fault because you're a good person and I think I'm a good person too. We just weren't made for this.”
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”Tagged: romance, Love, Romantic, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived.”Tagged: Poetry, Kissing, Love, Lust, Destruction
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”Tagged: Softness, strength, vulnerability, Integrity
“I like to think that somewhere out there, on a planet exactly like ours, two people exactly like you and me made totally different choices and that somewhere, we're still together. That's enough for me.”Tagged: Choices, Decisions, Love, Alternate Universes, Other Lives