“Come back to me— I know how to love you so much better now that I can’t.”

“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.”

“No, a soulmate does not complete you — they inspire you to complete yourself. A soulmate is the person who supports your direction, who motivates and encourages you to stretch, to change, to reinvent yourself until you are happy. A soulmate is someone who loves you with so much conviction, and so much heart, that it is nearly impossible to doubt just how capable you are of becoming exactly who you have always wanted to be.”

When you love someone, you don’t want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt.

“I guess it is quite true that within a year, a person can change drastically.“ she said. "They change into this person that you cannot even imagine. The part that you used to see in them vanished. Vanished feelings and an overwhelming void now fills the closeness that you once had with this person. And you try so goddamn hard to pull that person back in, to keep that person close. Ironically, this person tries to break free from your grasp - pushing you away further and further and further. Until they become a blurry silhouette among the people you lost too.” “Why are you telling me this?” he asked. She looked at him. Tears visible in her eyes and while she was holding back her tears, she said “Because that so called person is you. No matter how hard I try, it is still enough. We’re still slowly drifting and you’re not doing anything about it. Goddamn it, please give me a sign that you still want me in your life.”

““There will be someone you have an in depth connection with, the one who ignites fires within your lungs no matter how long you two are apart. Two weeks from now. Six months. Perhaps a year. You will still feel the same when you’re together. And oh God if you try to break it, it will break you.””

“most importantly love like it’s the only thing you know how at the end of the day all this means nothing this page where you’re sitting your degree your job your money nothing even matters except love and human connection who you loved and how deeply you loved them how you touched the people around you and how much you gave them”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both sad and happy and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”