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respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own problems.
Survival is the best revenge,
but sometimes the worst ideas felt the best.
I’ve developed a death wish lately. May as well drown in it.
Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut.
High school had made me less confident and more introverted.
Experience is the best teacher.
“Calm down. I’m not saying you weren’t a good friend. Of course you were. His issues started this. But it’s easy to say you’ve tried and then just walk away. It’s easy to say that you can’t force help on someone that doesn’t want help and then walk away. You think you’re being noble and strong by turning the other cheek or biding your time until school’s over. But that baggage that you aren’t letting out is weakening you. Sometimes it’s the best medicine to be vulnerable, to let it all out and let him see how he’s hurt you. Then you can say that you’ve tried.”
“Acting like you don’t care is not letting it go.”
I could say what I need to say as long as I said it nicely.
“You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all of those things, and I loved you. But now? You’re a fucking drought. I thought that all the assholes drove German cars, but it turns out that pricks in Mustangs can still leave scars.”
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away. His eyes were like the cover of a book—giving you hints but not the whole story.
“Waking the demon. . . ..”
We can be confused about what is good for us but not about what we truly want.
“You were never clingy or a nuisance, Tate. The day you moved in next door I thought you were the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. I fucking loved you.”
“I want to touch you.” His words were against my lips now. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.”
His charm didn’t work on me the way it worked on others,
It wouldve worked on me, thats for sure.
This was my oasis. As silly as it sounded, the bathroom should be revered more. It’s the one place where absolute privacy is respected.
“There’s nowhere else I want to be than with you.”
“Don’t hide from me, and don’t ask me to hide,”
Yesterday lasts forever. Tomorrow comes never. Until you.
“We never lost that. As much as I tried, I could never erase you from my heart. That’s why I was such an asshole and kept guys away from you. You were always mine.”
Jared is about as revealing as a hermit crab. He’s like one of those piggy banks that you have to break to get anything out of. You can’t just shake him and he’ll give up the goods.
No one could really hurt me if I could hurt them, right?
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” -Mother Theresa
“I love you more than myself, more than my own family, for Christ’s sake. I don’t want to take another step in this world without you next to me,” he said softly.
I used to love people. I loved being a part of things and socializing. Now, I only wanted to be alone. Because alone was the only way I felt safe.
“Tate, you’re mine, and I’m yours. Every day you’re going to realize that more and more. When you believe it without a doubt, then I’ll have earned your trust.”
