She was chaos and madness, her heart never sitting still for long, and when I was with her, everything else crumbled away and I felt like I was home.
“But the truth is going to heal your heart a lot faster than simply letting it break over and over until you finally face what you knew all along anyway: If he wanted to be with you, he would be with you.”
― Happily (N)ever After: Essays That Will Heal Your Broken Heart
― Happily (N)ever After: Essays That Will Heal Your Broken Heart
“But what I'd realized was that the brave aren't immune to fear. It's only that their fear doesn't stop them.”
― A Thousand Letters
― A Thousand Letters
“Maybe he didn’t choose me because he only liked the idea of me.”
― Happily (N)ever After: Essays That Will Heal Your Broken Heart
― Happily (N)ever After: Essays That Will Heal Your Broken Heart
“It had been a perfect fit, but perfection can be an illusion. I stared at my naked finger, the band of pale skin pink and tender.”
― Everything We Keep
― Everything We Keep
“My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.”
― Bright Side
― Bright Side
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