Lee Wallen

“You're lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.”
― -Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations with the Ghosts of Old Lovers

“To forgive oneself does not negate the need to undo mistakes. True forgiveness desires to make things right. Making things right is not equivalent to guilt. The need to undo mistakes cannot be replaced by guilt. In fact, being immobilised by guilt is an avoidance of fixing things up. It makes one powerless and gives one an excuse to remain passive and negligent. To continuously feel guilty over wrong doing is both ego-confirmatory and ineffective in correcting bad karma. Guilt is the initial spur to action. Then we act in order to correct both our thoughts and the karma, and we leave the guilt behind.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“Along my lips my blood does weep
as I mourn the love that kissed me deep,
’twas not enough to make my heart melt—
he has to use it to gloss his lips like diamonds,
diamonds they were when they kissed mine
wounding lacerations and slices the like.
But I don’t shine; I don’t speak
and see this heart? It no longer beats.”
― Ruth Boukhari, Forlorn