“Every time someone comes at me without the bravery of using their actual identity, my internet connection speeds up by 10 mbps.”Tagged: Internet Writing, comments, Anonymous Comments, Internet Culture, trolls
“Wake up, decide to be confident, and then do it.”Tagged: Confidence, Self-Love, Self-Image, Self-Worth, Love Yourself
“We were never poetry, we were never metaphors. We were a state of organized chaos. We were never the things that people write songs about or someone says, 'That. I want that.' We were the laundry piling up on the couch because no one bothered to put it away and dirty footprints on the tile because…”Tagged: Love, Big Love, Raw
“The honest to god truth? In the year prior to becoming a full-time producer and writer, I wrote over 350 pieces for various publications. I worked to get where I am today. It wasn’t just lucky. It was work. But I’d do it all over again.”Tagged: Writing on the internet, Writing, feminism, Career, How to be a writer
“Will someone decide they know exactly who I am without getting to know me outside of a 900 word essay?”Tagged: Writing on the internet, Writing, Please don't google me, Modern Dating
“You suck at moving on because you aren’t willing to change your own life. You keep waiting for someone, something to change it for you. And when that doesn’t happen you just sit, still waiting and still transfixed on the thing you claimed to be letting go of in the first place.”Tagged: Reality, Moving On, Letting Go, Change, Acceptance
“I’ve put off immortalizing you in saying what I have to say because once I do, you’re no longer mine. It’s putting you out into the world to be poetry for someone else. And as long as I keep you in my head, no one else can touch us. Even when there is nothing to touch. Even when there is no us.”Tagged: Writing About Love, Writing About Him, Writing Someone To Life, Losing You, Falling Out Of Love
“I say I loved you without ever entertaining the notion that maybe, just maybe, I was loved back.”Tagged: Love, break ups, Exes, Devil's Advocate
“We were never the things that people write songs about or someone says, "That. I want that." We were the laundry piling up on the couch because no one bothered to put it away and dirty footprints on the tile because it was more fun to go out in the rain without shoes. We were cheap wine that led to…”Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, real, Raw, Relationships
“I find myself formulating excuses I know you’ve already come up with, because I know I’ll never get an ‘I’m sorry’ followed by just a period. And I deserve that period.”Tagged: Breakups, Breaking Up, excuses, Taking Responsibility
“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”Tagged: Heartbreak, Lost Love, Almost Relationships, Relationships
“You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re magnificent. You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re just fine. You aren’t a lot to handle. You’re just YOU.”Tagged: Self-Acceptance, Loving Yourself, Be yourself
“Once a girl who is an only child commits to you, she’s FULLY committed. She will be the most attentive, invested girlfriend you’ve ever had. Only children are often a little OCD and get hyper-excited/obsessed with things, and this will absolutely translate into how much they show that they care…”Tagged: only children, ocd, alone time, Dating
“When an only child falls for someone, it’s a big deal. They don’t take these emotions lightly because they don’t happen very often.”Tagged: only children, Love, Relationships
“After years of pretty amazing birthdays and Christmases we have got gift-giving down to a damn science. We’re the girlfriends and boyfriends who go above and beyond not only because we don’t have an army of siblings to also shop for, but because we grew up on the receiving end and now practice what…”Tagged: only children, gifts, Holidays
“Just because she can do it herself, just because realistically she probably doesn’t need you, doesn’t mean she doesn’t want you.”Tagged: Love, Confidence
“They say you can’t die from a broken heart. But you sure can wake up in the middle of the night and feel it trying to kill you.”
“Being able to laugh at yourself makes everything a little easier. Nothing is more exhausting than someone who takes things too seriously. Laugh at yourself. Make fun of yourself. You’ll be happier.”Tagged: 20 somethings, Laughter, Happiness
“Your life will get exponentially better when you learn to take time for yourself. You deserve self-care, you deserve you time. And when you realize this and learn to treat yourself from time to time, life is going to get better.”Tagged: 20 somethings, Self-Care, Treat Yourself