I need to be broken like an unruly mustang/ like bitten skin

“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

“You will search for me in another person, I promise.”

“When you care about someone, you just do, and nothing changes that.”

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.”

“Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.”

“I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night I lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person.”