If she’s not careful, I might just fall in love with her. Tonight.
We don’t get to choose our parents, and parents don’t get to choose their children. But we do get to choose how hard we’re willing to work in order to make the best of what we’re given.
That could be fate, you know.
Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn’t determine whether that book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn’t really matter if they end up happy together.
Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.
If you don’t show up today, I’ll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I’ll wait for you, hoping one day you’ll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn’t happen and you never show, I’ll still be grateful to you until the day that I die. You saved me the day we met.
I missed you,” he says. “A lot. And screw it if I’m not supposed to admit that, but I tried the whole alpha-male thing for two seconds and I just can’t do it. So you don’t get alpha-Ben today. I’m sorry.
How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they’re right. Maybe we don’t know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.
You’re only human. And as humans, we can’t expect to shoulder all of our pain. Sometimes we have to share it with the people who love us so we don’t come crashing down from the weight of it all.
Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn’t include me.
When you’re willing to give up the things that mean the most to you just to see someone else happy, that’s real love.
We’re all full of flaws. Hundreds of them. They’re like tiny holes all over our skin. And like your fortune said, sometimes we shine too much light on our own flaws. But there are some people who try to ignore their own flaws by shining light on other people’s to the point that the other person’s flaws become their only focus. They pick at them, little by little, until they rip wide open and that’s all we become to them. One giant, gaping flaw.
Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.
Trust your gut. Not your heart, because it’s a people pleaser, and not your brain, because it relies too heavily on logic.
He kisses me like I’m his canvas.
You are my wife. I’m supposed to be the one who protects you from the monsters. I’m not supposed to be one.
No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive.
Lily, Atlas says just keep swimming. – Ellen DeGeneres.
What did I miss while you were sleeping?
I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant”.