we're smiling but we're CLOSE TO TEARS

“Thomas Edison’s last words were: It’s very beautiful over there.’ I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.”

“Cause I’m gonna be free and I’m gonna be fine… maybe not tonight.”

“One day, I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”

“If I disappear know that I’m okay.”

“Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.”

“We were the wrong age for love and yet it was all we could think about.”

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

“How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

“Some days I have a lot to write, full to the brim with words and thoughts. Other days, I don’t know where to begin. Once in a while, I’m afraid to bring out a memory in fear that it will refuse to leave and stay to haunt me. Some days, I simply ache with feelings that cannot be explained in mere words.”

“I fell in love with the way she dreamt about forever; she was a girl of adventure & I was her writer. She’s wild, but she’s soft kind of like when it rains during the summer and she smiles in such a way that makes me feel lighter. She’s a traveler filled with chaos but she feels at peace in the serenity of saltwater; I saw a silent hope in her eyes that someday she’ll recover. She’s the prettiest girl in the world; the touch of her skin feels like a mourning dove’s feather; I close my eyes, and I’m surrounded by flowers and no winter. She’s my someone, my soulmate, my life; I choose her for the reason that she inspires me to be better and today I promise that I will always cherish her in my tender.”

“I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat.”

“I’m thankful for the kindness of others, which teaches me that the world can be a beautiful place.”