If lies were written, I would erase them, But they are spoken, Etched within, With convalesced truth I scream out my atonement. Let me repent against your skin.
People spend so much time wondering why the women don’t leave. Where are all the people who wonder why men are even abusive?
But after tonight, I realized that maybe a lot of people are just doing it wrong. Because what’s happening between us doesn’t feel like a responsibility. It feels like a reward. And I’ll fall asleep wondering what I did to deserve it.
He has a knowing look in his eye, but then the lines around his eyes fall a little. “You’ll cry tonight. In bed. That’s when it’ll hurt the most. When you’re alone.
This is the only negative aspect to finally being with the person you’re meant to be with. You go years aching to be with them, and when they finally become a significant part of your life, it somehow hurts even more.
Now I actually like my life. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished. I have absolutely no desire to allow anyone from my past to come in and threaten that.
Nothing you have done and nothing you could do would excuse any man’s hands on you out of anger. Remember that, Lily. You made the right choice by leaving that situation. You should never feel guilty for that. Pride is the only thing you should feel.
I mean, it was the lowest point of my life, sure. But my memories with you from back then are still some of my favorites.
Best girlfriend ever. Until I killed him.
I love you to life,” because that’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.
I asked her what the anxiety felt like. She said, “It’s like a shiver running through my blood.
Maybe you don’t have to know a person’s history to realize who they are in the present. And who I’ve started to realize he is on the inside makes him even more attractive on the outside. Attractive enough that I think about him almost every waking second.
I know very little about the pieces that make him up as a whole, but I feel like I know what kind of person all those pieces have made him. Maybe you don’t have to know a person’s history to realize who they are in the present.
I try not to think about our impending goodbye, but it’s hard to experience something that feels this perfect without being acutely aware it’s about to be taken away.
I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.
But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person’s life, I know that love still has to weigh the same.
It was hard, being let go by someone who had never really grabbed hold of me completely in the first place.
Concern might be the only difference between liking someone and loving someone.
It’s me, Lily. It’s us. There’s nothing to be embarrased about.
There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you. but there was, and I was in it. I’ll be in it forever.