“Love has taught me how to be alone. Because people leave. Without warning, without explanation, without any thought to what happens once they’re gone. And they are allowed to do that - they are allowed to leave if something in them doesn’t want to stay. Sometimes, it’s not the physical distance that kills you either. It’s the way their eyes stop seeing you or the realization that they never did. And the thing is, just because people leave doesn’t mean the progress you made while they were there has to. And that is what love teaches you. How to find solace in yourself even when your heart is rupturing. How to sit alone with yourself at the end of a hard day and think to yourself, “It has been a hard day. But there is strength in this body. And there is love in the days ahead. If only I have the courage to find it.””
— L.A.L. || I think, it’s okay to build your house with bricks from other people - friends, family, lovers, lovely strangers in subway cars. But your foundation? Your foundation has gotta be yourself. You can’t pick up and move every time someone leaves. You rebuild, you reinforce, add some more of your own bricks to balance out the ones from other people. But your bedrock, that plot of land that you staked out at birth? That’s all you babe. And you have every right to protect it ruthlessly.