Keep me where the light is.

“You are the first person I ever showed my heart to and you are the reason no one will ever see it again.”

“Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Someday somebody will love you and it will make sense. You will feel seen. You will feel heard. You will understand because you will finally feel understood. And the “weird,” uncomfortable parts of you that you tried for years to hide will flop out, but they will not run away. They will say, close your eyes. Take a deep breath. I see you. I’m not going anywhere.”

“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people’s response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.”

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I am the dark and I am the light, I am the moon and I am the starless night sky. Fall in love with all that I am or please, do not fall in love with me at all.

He was the forest and she was the storm. He was beautiful and calm. She was broken and destructive. Together they created something magnificent. Yet once she was gone, he was nothing more than aching fragments of his old self.