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I see perfection in things that are likely considered imperfections by others.
“It makes you feel alive. It brings you crashing into the here and now. Keeps you alert and grounded.
Death and grief make everyone around you vanish because death and grief are intolerable.
most days, so the idea of foreign travel is not exactly
“You need songs that make you feel. Some make you strong, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those.
I am. It’s a constant struggle to stay near the surface. I have just enough air to stop me from totally going under, but not enough to thrive.
It’s smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It’s a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.
There is no set pattern to grief, despite what every stupid psych text has told me. There is no time frame that dictates when and how you’ll feel what you feel. You just get to deal with hell however, and whenever, it hits you.
“You are the great love of my life that I’m never going to have.”
“You said something last night that was completely wrong. Sleeping together was not a mistake. Blythe. I could never touch anyone the way that I touch you. And I will never regret falling in love with you. Don’t forget that.”
“I am overwhelmingly in love with you,” Chris says as he matches my steps. “I’ve spent most of my life thinking that my father never gave me anything but pain. But that’s not true. He did give me something. Someone. You. He gave me you. Last summer, you asked me to believe in us. I don’t believe in much, as you know, but I do damn well believe in us. Forever.”
