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“Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again and then the phone rings and you hope it’s them. It’s the most twisted logic of all time.”

“Even the good people, the ones you dream of meeting, fuck up. People aren’t perfect and loving someone means handing them a gun and trusting them not to shoot you. But we’re all human and sometimes we get scared and we panic, accidentally pulling the trigger. That doesn’t mean that they don’t love you… it just means that Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual and sometimes we do the wrong thing. So do you banish them from your life and try to forget their existence when you might have made the very same mistake if the roles were reversed? If they shot you and are begging for forgiveness, willing to do anything to make it up to you, do you give them another chance and hope that the good you see in them will overcome the bad? Or do you just shut down and walk away?”

“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, love, anger, loss or betrayal, change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.”

“You can never explain how painful it is to say goodbye to someone you love.”

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.”

I think he’s never going to not love her. Now that doesn’t mean it’s a romantic love, it just means that the two of them found something deep…a connection so deep when they were so young that even though their lives were on different paths, different directions, they had that…they had that together. And you never lose it. I mean, I know there’s people in your past, friends, relationships, anything that you hold with such care and every time you think of that person, you just smile, and there is a small sort of pained desire to recapture that, but you know the moment’s passed.

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

““A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they’ve all let him down.””

“I am tired. These people make me feel I have a hole in the middle of me.”

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”

“I don’t mess around or play games. I don’t believe in them. I just want honesty. I’d rather wake up one morning and say, “You know what? I had a really terrible dream that you were fucking someone else. Can you love me extra today?” instead of getting in a fight about some stupid shit and then at the end of the day being like, “Okay, can I tell you why I’ve been acting like this?” I’d rather say “Heads up” than “I’m sorry” later. Your relationship is supposed to be the safe place.”

“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.”