“Missing you comes in waves and tonight I am drowning.”

“You were once wild. Don’t let them tame you.”

“I know I’m not easy to love. I’m a chronic over-thinker. I overreact more than I should…And every once in a while, I might be a little insecure. But if I am in love with you, I can promise you wholeheartedly that you will be loved with so much passion and intensity that you’ll forget what life felt like before I came along. You will always be cared for and you will always have someone in your corner. Maybe I’m not the best at being loved - But I like to think I’m pretty good at loving.”

“I just feel so fucking empty sometimes and it’s so exhausting to feel nothing and everything at the same time.”

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

““One day she realized that she was the only one who could live her life. So she decided to stop worrying about what other people thought and start following her own path. She never looked back.” - Samantha Gilbert”

““I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody’s going to come and save you, you’ve got to save yourself. Nobody’s going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except for you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. So don’t give up on your dreams.” - Barry Manilow”

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”

“Choosing to be kind is not choosing to be passive. It’s choosing to end the cycle of abuse.”

“That’s the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”

“You can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”

“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some storied don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

“Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?”

“Once upon a time i decided love was too much like drowning.”