Sleeping Beauty

“I know you’re exhausted and tired of hurting, but you can’t give up yet. You still have more sunlit afternoons to bask in and more friends to meet. You still have more cats to pet and more mountains to climb. You still have a life to live, no matter how stuck you feel right now. You still have a beautiful future coming.”

“‘She cried over you. She cried for days.’ ‘I know.’ 'Then why didn’t you reach out to her? Why didn’t you give her the closure she needs?’ 'Because I’m hurting too,’ he shouted. 'Because I’m afraid that if I see her crying in front of me, I’ll apologize and beg for her back! But I can’t do that.’ His gaze dropped. 'I can’t hurt her anymore than I already have.’”

“You told me to not break your heart. Yours. And look at where we are now”

once a boy let me borrow his jacket and after i gave it back i heard him gushing to his friends bc it smelled like me

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.”

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.