“In life, you will realize there is a role for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you, some will love you, and some will teach you. But the ones who are truly important are the ones who bring out the best in you. They are the rare and amazing people who remind you why it’s worth it.”

“Stop looking for the love of your life, love your life and the right person will appear.”

“Sometimes you’re the toxic one. Sometimes you try so hard to be a good person and treat others well, but you still don’t treat someone in your life fairly. When that happens, it’s so important to acknowledge it, and act accordingly, whether that means allowing the relationship to end, or making amends. Own up to your mistakes and actions, and be better in the future. You aren’t a bad person.”

“You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing; you can be in a relationship for 2 months and feel everything. Time is not a measure of quality; of infatuation, or of love.”

“Ich hab dich immer geliebt, aber eben auf eine ruhige Art und Weise.”

“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts,rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”

“In 20 years, when my daughter asks me who my first love was, I’ll think of you. I will think of nights spent talking until the sun came up. I will think of the way your smile lit up my heart. I will think of the lessons you taught me, both before and after your broke my heart. And I will look down at my daughter and tell her your name, I’ll tell her how much I loved you, how dangerous it is to love somebody that much, how I had to learn to put myself back together again once you left. But I’ll also tell her that none of it matters as much as it did then, I’ll tell her that it doesn’t hurt the way it used to, I’ll tell her that it’s important to put your heart on the line even if it means breaking it somewhere along the way. And I’ll tell her that you taught me one of the most important lessons you can ever learn: that you deserve someone who knows how to love you.”

“I’m over it. I swear I’m over it. But sometimes it still gets hard to breathe when someone walkes by who wears your perfume and sometimes my heart still hurts when someone says your name. Sometimes it still makes me wanna scream my lungs dry when I see a picture of you. Sometimes I still need 14 shots of vodka to forget the pain that you caused. And sometimes, my heart is still breaking when I think about the way you used to look at me. But I’m learning to live without you.”

“i need to learn to stop excuses for people’s behavior and how badly they treat me. just because i understand that you had a difficult childhood and bad parents doesn’t mean that it is okay for you to treat me like shit. your parents were bad people and didn’t love you like they should’ve, i am not sorry for that, it isn’t my mistake. i suffered the same fate”