Julie

“You are an incredible young man. No one gets to decide your worth except you. And you are worth anything and everything,”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

“The thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“All love ends," she says.
"Maybe," I say. "But it has to start somewhere.”
― Nicola Yoon, Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet

“I still carry you on the insides of me: cave paintings on rib-caging. If I were a peach, you would be the pit that holds me all together. When I met you, I was something small and whole; I do not know how to get back there. You have the warmest heart I have ever set up camp in.
I still carry you on the insides of me: the contents of my suitcase heart. I will lug you around until it breaks my back and then some. I feel sometimes like I have scattered my pieces everywhere, but you are the piece I do not know how to leave at the foot of a stranger’s bed or between the lines of a free-verse poem. I want you to know that loving you is freeing; that loving you is like holding my head under water and coming up new again and again.
I still carry you on the insides of me. This will not always make sense to you”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee