“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”

“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.”

“Sometimes we have to travel to unknown places to find things we didn’t know we’d lost, and to repair parts of us we didn’t know were broken.”

“You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don’t fight battles that don’t matter.”

“And I just want to wake up next to you, exhausted with the adventures from the night before still lingering on our skin.”

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”

“Never wish them pain. That’s not who you are. If they caused you pain they must have pain inside. Wish them healing.”

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.”

“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“Some people, as far as your senses are concerned, just feel like home.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…”

Night air, good conversation, and a sky full of stars can heal almost any wound.

My desires in a relationship have changed over time. I no longer want someone who promises to always love me and never leave me, I need someone who understands that life happens and sometimes things don’t work out. I don’t want someone who sugar coats things and never gets angry with me, I need someone to tell me how it really is and put me in my place. I need to be able to go five hours without talking to you and not feel lost or incomplete. I am complete without you. But with you, I want to be so much better. I want to be stronger with you. I want us to grow together and help each other grow individually. I don’t need you, but I really fucking want you. And this may not work out, but the fact that you understand all of this and this how our relationship works, makes me think we’ve got a pretty good shot.