S.M.O.K.E

“The solution to many of life’s deepest troubles is simple, human courage. The courage to look inward. The courage to take those first bold steps. The courage to find the thing you fear most and march valiantly toward it.”

“I’m told we don’t need anyone else to feel complete, but seems no matter how well I put myself together, deep down, I still sense a fragment is missing — like I am 99 parts of a 100 piece puzzle, and you are the final piece.”

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”

After so many people walk in and out of the door you learn to lock it.

A relationship is like a slow dance. Every movement must be taken carefully and in consideration of the partner’s and a single misstep can result in disaster, but when a couple dedicates themselves to perfecting this performance, to the pursuit of intimately knowing each other, the result is devastatingly beautiful. Selflessness and compromise meet together like clasped hands. While trust and loyalty lock like a love-struck gaze. Care and understanding bear each challenge with mastery and poise like pairs of nimble feet spinning gracefully across a dance floor. As one partner bends, the other bows. As one partner falls, the other reaches out to catch them. When a relationship works it is effortless and fluid, a meticulously choreographed pirouette between two partnered souls in perfect balance.

If it hurts more than it makes you happy then take the lesson and leave.  Listen, it’s going to be OK. Some people are only rehearsals for the real thing.

This life is the most incredible life. Enjoy every fucking minute of it. Always find reasons to be happy or I'll kick your ass.

I want more of you. Always more. Your whole mouth. Your inhibitions relinquished. Your bare naked skin. Your wrists tied in ribbon firmly behind your waist. To taste you. Devour you. Make you tremble. Unfurl. And when it is all over, whisper in your ear, Good girl.

Fight hard and fiercely for the person you love, but after a point, for the good and peace of your own heart, you must learn to concede defeat and withdraw—to recognise clearly when the war you are bleeding for has already been fought and lost.

The next time you find yourself in a dark place I want you pick yourself up, step outside, look long and hard into the deep night sky and take comfort in the knowledge that the absence of light makes nothing in this universe any less astonishing or magic.