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To fall in love with someone who doesn’t love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.

“You ask if we can still be friends. I explain how a honeybee does not dream of kissing the mouth of a flower and then settle for its leaves.”

“I realized that I shouldn’t have to work that hard to keep someone around. I deserve someone who stays because they want to, not because I ask them to.”

“I do not want to have you, to fill the empty parts of me I want to be full on my own

““I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.””

I can’t give up on you, okay? I couldn’t tell you why, I don’t even know myself. But I think I’m attached to you in this really weird way, like our paths were meant to cross and continue side by side for however long they need to. And it feels like the universe keeps telling me to wait a little more, like it’s saying that one day soon, something will happen, that we will happen, and I really hope this is the case. But please, please hurry up. I don’t know how much longer I can take this. Waiting for you is the most excruciatingly difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.

I made a bet with the universe that if at that moment, you came walking back through my front door, I would keep fighting for you and I would hold onto you for a little while longer, but if you didn’t, if you didn’t come back in time, I would finally let you go. And after what seemed to be the longest minute of my life, the door remained closed and you were nowhere in sight. Looking back, I’m glad I was given that sign. I can honestly say that I’m grateful that I learned how to let you go. I wish I had learned that lesson sooner. But I would be blatantly lying if I said that during all sixty of those ticking seconds that determined our fate, I wasn’t praying that you’d coming stumbling back in through that door and run to me with open arms, because I was. Even in those last moments, some small part of me was still holding on- holding on to you.

She kept saying “I don’t care about it, I don’t care anymore.” But for the life of me I couldn’t figure out whether that meant she really didn’t care or that she cared too much.

dating someone shouldn’t exhaust you

You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.

Your words said something, your actions said something else

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix