Marina

“You can't control the bad things that happen to you. All you can do is decide how much of you you're going to let them take.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“once you've been at death's door and don't die, you'd think you'd be bathed in this relief and gratitude but that isn't it at all. instead, you look at the difficult road ahead of you to get better and you get PISSED. Something else happens too. you're plagued by this nagging question..."Why have I been spared?"...There HAD to be a reason.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“This shakes me. I’ve spent hours, days, entire years wondering if [he] could possibly long for me the way I did for him. In some ways, it seemed like wishful thinking. In the months following our breakup, I left countless messages on his dorm room phone. Sent text after text and wrote email after email checking to see how he was, telling him how much I missed him and asking if we could please talk. He didn’t respond to a single one.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“It's amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you; alter you indelibly.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World