dead palette

“I didn’t lose you. You lost me. You’ll search for me inside of everyone you’re with and I won’t be found.”

“I can’t keep doing this, I can’t keep telling myself that you don’t matter to me, that I’m over you. Because I miss you, I miss you every single day and I don’t know how much longer I can pretend to be okay.”

My dad: “So if your pronouns are they and them, how should I refer to you when I brag about you? My daughter? My son?”

“Here I am, trying to think of a million beautiful ways to say that I am lonely, but this is not beautiful . This is pain, and suffering, and sadness, and loss. This is loneliness.”

“When you love someone, it’s never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart.”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

“Don’t fall in love with the moment and think you’re in love with the girl.”

“I’m always wondering if he’ll return, sometimes I pray that he doesn’t. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes.”