Will you promise to love me forever?

Despite all the wreckage, all the empty promises, all the nights spent wondering why I was never enough to stay for- there is still a foolish, exhausted part of me that believes love is real.

“Don’t be afraid to love again. Not everyone is like your ex.”

“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind even after the world tore them a part.”

“Do one thing that scares you.”

“I am a different person to different people. Annoying to one. Talented to another. Quiet to a few. Unknown to a lot. But who am I, to me?”

And maybe that's the tragedy of people like me. We keep offering water to a world that left us thirsty. We keep building homes in our chest for people who never planned to stay. And somehow, after all of it, we still leave the porch light on.

“Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Sometimes a good heart doesn’t see the bad.”

“After all, soul mates always end up together.”

“You think I put my head on your chest to watch TV. Sometimes I just like to hear your heartbeat.”

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”