Karen

I still talk to you in my head. I tell you about my day, every little ridiculous thing that happened, knowing exactly where you'd laugh. You'd call me adorable, tease me a little, then drift into one of your endless rambles while I quietly listened, smiling because you're voice always felt like home. Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine you're lying next to me. Close enough to reach for. Close enough to forget, if only for a second, that you're not really there. Eventually, you'd tell me you had things to do. So we'd hang up. And I'd spend the rest of the day waiting for my phone to light up again. Always hoping it would be you. It always was you.

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.”

“The moral of the story is never have feelings for anybody ever.”

I've never met a strong person with an easy past.