au revoir

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

“Stop thinking so much. You’re breaking your own heart.”

“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.”

“Appreciate every small progress.”

“I only write when I am falling in love, or falling apart.”

“I grasped two things: I wasn’t as happy as I could be, and my life wasn’t going to change unless I made it change.”

“I think freckles, stretch marks, tattoos, bruises, birthmarks, and scars are probably the coolest thing. You started with a blank canvas and look at you now, all this evidence that you’ve lived”

“Maybe I wasn’t made for anyone.”

“Please don’t use ‘I love you’ as a filler when you’ve got nothing to say. Don’t use it as an alternative for ‘sorry’. Don’t use it when you’re feeling bad or mad. Don’t use it to escape an argument. Don’t say it out of pity. Don’t use it against someone. Instead, please use it wisely. Calm yourself then think once, twice, or maybe even a hundred times before using it. Question yourself before uttering it. Make sure you know it’s what you feel before saying it. Say it only to the right person. Say it because you mean it. Say it because not saying it makes you anxious. Say it because there’s no other word nor phrase that compares to how you feel. Say it because that person earned your trust to hear it and last; Say this to yourself. You deserve it.”