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men who read are a particular weakness of mine.
for some people self-care means twisting yourself into a pretzel and planting an organic garden that you mainly subsist on, on your balcony, which is actually weird. And for others, it’s traveling halfway across the city for processed cheese. Less weird. Both are equally valid.
Most of the time, people are too uncomfortable with negativity and pain for honest answers. Wanting to fix it, fix me, they offer positivity and solutions, which become toxic in their frequency. I’m an optimistic person in my own way, but there’s a danger in forceful optimism and not recognizing reality.
He’s everything—late nights chasing fireflies, picking lilacs in blossom, boombox blaring, singing and dancing in the rain, and utter defeat and humiliation. He, frankly, is home.
“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy—at home and in Paris.”
Sometimes I want the freedom to be and not be strong or a warrior, and I sure as hell don’t want to be graceful.
“Life sucks hard most of the time. Let me escape into a promised land where everything works out in the end.”
“Whatever you want to do, I’m yours, Peaches.”
“the only true language in the world is a kiss,”
My heart has found its home. I just never imagined home would be a person.
My last decade manifested in human connections.
