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“I wish so much that I could have her back, now that I feel I know her. But sometimes we only get lucky enough to understand people once they’re gone.”

I am in public, I cannot cry

“You’re smart and everyone knows you’ll do big things, but I wonder if you question whether you want to or not? Is being capable of greatness necessarily an indication that you should grasp it? Is greatness all so that we can be remembered how we want to be?”

oh ok

“But my heart breaks again. I am omitted, again from my mother’s last words.”

mine does too

the effort I’m putting into holding back my tears can be considered a workout

“It scared the shit out of me, because I’m afraid of losing you. But I do believe it’s better to love and lose. And I already lost you. So many times. Now I just want to love you.”

“Because I love you. I’ve always loved you. I’m always gonna love you. And there’s a reason I can’t find this feeling anywhere else. It’s because it’s not lust. It’s not love. It’s you.”

“You shouldn’t have had to do that. You didn’t have to. But you did do it, and I’m so grateful. I’m so grateful you did because I got to be a stupid kid for a whole lot longer. The only problem is . . . You didn’t.”

-I didn’t want to be the one to fix everything. I’d been fixing everything for so long.
-Yeah, and whose fault is that?
-It’s not my-
-Nobody asked you to do the things you did for everyone.Nobody even needed you to, a lot of the time.The thing is,you don’t trust anybody to know what they need.You work tirelessly behind the scenes to give people things they never asked for,and won’t appreciate like you hope