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tears are the overflow of a brimming heart.
I thought I’d feel small next to his towering presence, but I'm taller somehow. Rare.
She said it’s the safest place in the entire universe since nothing bad can happen there—a land where her soul dwells. I am strangely reminded of Mom’s utopia, gazing into the depths of Sid’s eyes.
A wildly cute grin lights up his face. It’s the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
“I remember thinking the key to happiness isn’t getting what you desire necessarily, but when your desires align with what will bring you peace,”
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next…You must look into that storm and shout, ‘Do your worst, for I will do mine!’ Then the fates will know you as we know you.”
“I wanted to burn into my consciousness that I only exist at this moment. Tomorrow is an illusion.”
When it comes to opening up, I’m that night-blooming flower that unfurls once a year on a full moon. Yet, an hour around him and I’m spread open, offering myself to feed his curiosity. And I can’t tell if it’s due to me being star-struck, his disarming magnetism, or something else.
We’re all haunted in some way—whether by the secrets we protect, the truths we deny, or the inexplicable ugliness life throws our way.”
A comforting peace settles within me from feeling like I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
Honestly, people go to therapy for different reasons. You don’t need to hit some kind of secret trauma threshold before it’s okay to go. You can go because you want to improve your life.”
‘Mark Twain said that the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
Thinking about the future causes anxiety. Thinking about the past binds us to old memories and feelings. Our power is in the present.”
I stare into his eyes, and hidden doors not meant to be uncovered rattle as he peers back with a trembling intensity—almost like he could love what he sees.
Life makes no sense. It brings people in need together while taking those we need from us.
You’re terrified of opening your heart up, yet you manage to love with every inch of it.
He offers it so faithfully—together. An answer to an unspoken prayer. How could a solitary word promise such companionship?
“You know the shitty thing about depression? When you realize you’re in it, you’re already waist deep.” I nod, wondering if every illness feels this sneaky.
Making love to him reaches a part of me that I can’t access on my own. It’s the most precious and frightening thing how much I need what we give to each other.
“The goal in healing isn’t to take anything away from you except for the beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve you.
“I’m convinced the Creator used a miniature paintbrush and centuries of painstaking detail to create you.”
I never understood the laws of gravity until I experienced Sid’s laughter. Its cavernous rumble knocked me into a new orbit, where I’d gladly circle eternity, bathing in its sound and gazing into his sun-glinted eyes.
I’d kill to see myself the way he sees me.
