You are not alone.

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”

“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”

“Part of me wanted to have a conversation with you, but not before you told me that you were sorry, not before you begged for my forgiveness. But your apology never came, and I’m still waiting.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

“How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly? It was love because it was worth it.”

“I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.”

“I choose you over everyone.”

“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”