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"I've already made a mess."

Mood...

"It's self-sabotage. Because if you can convince yourself you already know how it ends, then you get to walk away without having to actually live your life."

🙈🙈🙈

I refuse to be the girl who gets blindsided. I'm smarter than that."

“She wants to be told she’s loved, but it has to be true. He has to mean it. It has to be more than just empty words.”
“Actions speak louder than words.”

“It shouldn’t be this hard for me to go after what I want. So why is my anxious little brain complicating things?”

“I just want to climb him like a tree.”

“He’s one of the good ones. I think.”

“I want to have fun. I want to stop overthinking it… failure will be a hell of a lot better than spending the rest of my life wishing I hadn’t been too proud and scared to try.”

“Reading is so much fun, but I’m tired of feeling like all the best part of my life have been lived inside my own head.”

“Because that’s what non-fictional men do: disappoint you.”

True

“If he wanted to, he would’ve stayed. But he didn’t.”

“I don’t know what happens next. I’ve lost the fucking plot.”

“Life is far too short to let my shot at feeling like I’m in a romance novel pass me by.”

“ if you’re not into it, you can go back to your book. My ego can’t take their head, I promise. But don’t hold out on me because you’re scared.’”

WHOA WHOAH WHOAH!!! Wow!!!

“Fiction is a healthy way to exercise the imagination.”

"Wherever he is, that will be my favorite place."

"We're happy, and even when we're not, it's so much better than it was without him."

"I didn't know regular life could feel like this, like a vacation you don't have to go home from."

"You are, you know."
"A fighter?" I say.
"My home," he says, and kisses me.
We are , I think. We're home.

"I never want to live without this."

I love them!

"I know if I got on a plane with you back to New York, I would be so fucking happy. For as long as you'd have me, I'd be happy."

"I don't regret telling you. I said I'd give anything up, risk anything for you, and I meant it." Even my own heart.
"I love you all the way, Alex."

*CRIES UNCONTROLLABLY*

"I don't want you to give anything up. I want us to just make sense, and we don't, Poppy. I can't watch it fall apart again."

OH? *cries*

"I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that's where I belong. I'll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I'm feeling, I want you next to me. You're home to me, Alex. And I think I'm that for you too."

"I love you so much that I've spent twelve years putting as much distance between us as I could... All of that, every minute of it, has been running away from you, and I don't want to do that anymore. I love you, Alex Nielsen. Even if you don't give me a real chance, I'm always going to love you."

"You’re not so bad. You’re human. Allow yourself to be so."

"You can’t run yourself. Not your history, not your fears, but parts of yourself you worried are wrong."

"I know she’s right. I have to run through, not away. My only hope for figuring this out is to stay, sit in the discomfort."

"Sometimes a change of scenery is all that’s needed to get a little perspective."