““It’s been a year. It’s been a really hard year without you. Losing you felt like jumping off the bridge and forgetting which way was up. I don’t think I’ll ever be over it, but I’m starting to find my way through it. Mom said when a person dies, you don’t get over it by forgetting; you get through it by remembering. I’ve been remembering everything lately.””

““If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.””

“When you fall in love with someone’s personality, everything about that person tends to become beautiful”

“If our paths must diverge at some point, I will not be broken. I will be grateful that I had the chance to be cared for by you, that I got to share precious moments of your life with you. You have such a beautiful, free soul I could never capture you in a cage and keep you for myself. It would, however, be an honour to embark on this life-long journey with you.”

“There are things that people experience in a lifetime. There is trauma, pain, love, passion, sadness, and happiness. These things they are what shape us into who we are supposed to be, what we are meant to make of ourselves. They say there are 3 people that you will love in your life, 1 being your young fascination spiraling based off of what you think love is from the movies, 2 being the love that is just what you need but ends in a way that seems almost poetic, and 3 being the one that you never even expected but it feels so right and fits so well. More than likely only 1 of these will prevail in the end, it’s easy to pick which one. Of course it isn’t option 1 that ended in handcuffs and police cars, and you don’t really think it could be option 2 because that ended in a puddle of tears and brokenness because parental approval is very important and that was lacking. So obviously it’s option 3, the one that feels right and it clicks and it doesn’t always feel like younger you thought love should feel like but it also seems appalling to even fathom your world without this love. This love being the one who didn’t watch very many love stories and spent time reading comics instead of reading about girls. This love is the one who wants to stay in instead of going out which lets be honest that isn’t always a disadvantage. This love is the love that makes you wonder what the hell youre doing because you thought it was supposed to be something out of a fairytale or at least a show that ended with the perfect family picture. But it’s okay, this love is pure, this love should last.”

“..but then I realised I’ve never been in love, I’ve only been hurt. Because love could never hurt.”

“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”