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| My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore.
"You think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my boyfriend? I'm in a relationship. I have responsibilities. But he doesn't drive me crazy. He doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal. He doesn't make me sick to my stomach about someone else touching him with her hands! I would give anything to not be looking at you."
Love.
It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.
The most difficult phase of your life is not when no one understands you;
it's when you don't understand yourself.
He showed me that you can find the good in anybody if you just give them a chance- benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes they surprise you, but you never really get to know them until you listen to what's in their heart.
"I wish everyone in the world was a different color,
some shades would be similar,
but there would only be two of the same color.
The goal: to match colors.
Along the way, there will be several people with similar shades,
but none of your true color.
But when you find your matching color staring back at you-
you'll know."
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do.
I know you never meant to do everything you put me through
It's okay, I forgive you
Just know when you see me cringe sometimes,
I'm trying to rid the poison from my mind
- The Spill Canvas
Sometimes a person has to let go because their fingers are too tired of holding on. They'll always love you though. No matter what.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately as they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
- "Is it possible, do you think, to love two people at the same time?"
- "I'm still hoping it's possible to love one."
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| so this is the new year
and I don't feel any different
Yet, even in certain defeat, she secretly clung to the belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. But rather it's a tapestry of events that culminate an exquisite, sublime plan.
"It's strange how often a heart can be broken before the years can make it wise."
And I finally twist my heart around again,
so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside,
and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be,
and could be,
if there weren't any other people living in the world.
- Anne Frank
If you could go back and change just one thing about your life, would you? And if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or the heart of another? Would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing? Just one moment? One moment you always wanted back.
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
The worst feeling is suddenly realize that you don't measure up.
And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.
Did they live happily ever after? They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as do you, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where they were meant to stand. All I'm trying to say is that they lived as well as they could.
"Now I don't like using words like forever, but I will love you til the end of today. And in the morning when I remember everything that you are, I know I'll fall for you all over again."
and you belong with me, not swallowed in the sea.
How can I just let you walk away? Just let you leave without a trace?
When I stand here taking every breath for you.
You're the only one who really knew me at all.
to be betrayed by someone you loved that much-
you're just never the same.
"Love is often gentle, desire is always rage."
- Mignon Mclaughlin
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| She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys that she calls friends.
- "Tell me one last thing, is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
- "Of course it's been happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, let it go.
"I kept thinking how much my life in retrospect feels like the moments captured on all the Polaroids I kept looking at. It's just this series of flashes, isn't it? You wander around in the dark and then there's this flash and something gets caught in the light like a trap. Flash- a memory. Flash- a birthday. Flash- a series of chords on the piano. Flash- he laughs. Flash- a boy in a red hat. Flash- a sly smile at the door and a green dress. Flash- something you should have kept."
You might think I don't look, but deep inside the corner of my mind I'm attached to you.
Losers aren't the people who don't win, losers are the people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.
Love is not a victory march.
"The truth is, there is no line.
There's only your life, how you mess it up,
and who is there to save you.
Or who isn't."
- Mitch Albom
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
"I loved you. And here's a news flash: you protected me from nothing. I spent time missing you, wondering what the hell I did wrong to make you do that to me. I thought everything was my fault. And even when I got over that, I still knew what I'd lost: you. You were the one who made me laugh when I had a crappy day. You were the one I vented to when I was mad, the one I shared all the good stuff with. You always knew when I was full of crap, and you always called me on it. You were smart, you were funny, you were good-looking. You were mine. And then, suddenly, you weren't. I knew every day exactly what I'd lost, and I missed you every day, and I believed in you every day, and my heart broke every day. That's the big favor you did for me. Thanks so much. Here's the kicker- you weren't even protecting me. You were protecting yourself. If you'd give half a thought to me, you would have said goodbye."
You taught me how to love, but never how to stop.
I'm so afraid because I am so profoundly happy.
Happiness like this is frightening.
They only let you be this happy if they are preparing to take something from you.
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