Notes in constellations..

“I told him he could come and find me if he ever changed his mind,“ she said, “but I never heard from him again. “So you see, sometimes you offer people choices hoping that they’ll choose you. Sometimes you offer them choices knowing that they never will.””

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”

“Nobody has ever left me just once. They always come back to see how their absence dulled the vibrance in my eyes before disappearing again.”

“if they wanted you, wouldn’t they have chosen you?”

“Forgive them. All of your thems. The more thems you can forgive, the better you’ll feel.”

“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”

“I hope you’ll see me one day and see who I’ve become. I hope regret steals your breath.”

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about ever again. But you do.”

“Timing is everything. That guy you meet at 18 would mean something different to you if you met him at 28.”