allison

I saw this before I left work last night and had a quiet hope, and today I checked my phone at about quarter to two, while I was still on my lunch break, and I’ve just got a job interview with the BBC next week

“Her face was against my chest and she said she was breathing my scent. When I asked her what she smelled, her response was ‘home.’”

What is love?

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

“Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.”

“The best people I know are always evaluating and improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.”

“It feels like you’ll never get over it, but you will.”

“A lot of people think that in order to let go of a person and to move on you have to forget. You have to carefully loosen your grip on the memories, untangle your fingers and slowly forget the colour of their eyes or the lines to their favourite song. You have to act like they never walked alongside you, like they never made your heart beat faster or your chest tighten. You think you have to burn their photos, delete their messages and erase every trace they left behind. But you don’t. You can let go and still remember. You can move on and still keep the memories close to your heart. It’s the way you remember them that’s important. Can you think of them with a smile on your face and accept that there’s no returning or do you give in to the sadness that grips your heart and twists, searching for a way to go back?”