Sail Away,

“You smell like love.”

“Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. God, so lovely.”

“I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know you ever lived without them.”

“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

“One day, the sky will crack open and the stars will pour out in waves of moonlight- and there is your love.”

“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

It’s romantic to think that every version of me was made to be with every version of you. It’s romantic to think that our love crosses universes and traverses timelines and that we were always meant to be, that nothing could keep us apart. It’s a beautiful concept. But imagine if we were never meant to fall in love. Imagine if every conceivable universe wanted us to remain apart, but it was our own free will that brought us together. Imagine if we, in this timeline, were the only versions of ourselves to become what we are. That we were never meant to be, but we carved our own paths to each other. That our love was stronger than all the force of the universe. Maybe it was always going to be me and you. But maybe it was never going to be me and you and then it was anyway. Because of us.

“We get to decide what we’ll give to the world and what we’ll take from it. Love big; pack light.”