get bent.

1. Not every man is an axe. But not enough men are trees.

2. You will be practiced in the art of speaking in code. Every time you tell him “I love you,” what you will really mean is “Let me leave you.”

3. And you won’t. You won’t go. It will take seven attempts. On your last try, you will either come out gasping, like a fish from salt, or you will die still in love.

4. He could kill you, and you’d still misspell “live” with an O.

5. Don’t blame Eve. The world might be better off ending.

6. You could pull the moon from the sky if you wanted to, like meat cleaved from the bone. No one convinced you it was stuck there; you were just never brave enough to ask.

7. By braiding together every lie you’ve ever told yourself, you could form a rope to haul yourself out of your next one.

8. Every burr that’s ever attached itself to your clothing after exiting a forest is just a metaphor for all the ways you’ve let your past haunt you.

9. Even bells use their tongues more often than you. Speak up. It’s time to be heard.