if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.
I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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