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Who is the real danger when we adapt to the people who hurt us? Is it them? Or is it ourselves by showing them we are willing to accept their behavior?
The truth is, the stupid saying of loving yourself fully before loving someone else is too common to ignore. Because if we wait for someone else to fill the well of love in ou...
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Was she born this evil, or did life make her that way?
“If you hurt, I hurt. And if you bleed, I bleed.”
“I will bleed to within an inch of my life if I have to. I will ruin your entire future. I will drag you kicking and screaming, but what I won’t do is let you move on from me.”
Let’s build our own world. You be the sun, and I’ll bask in your light. Be the air, and I’ll breathe you in.
I’m no artist, no poet. I’m no painter who will depict you in a beautiful way. The only thing I can do is shape you into the goddess you are.”
All I want is to see your beautiful eyes shining with love before I close mine for eternity.
Please, don’t make me let you go. I just want to make it right.
Just because he doesn’t like to be doesn’t mean he’s not capable of it.
It’s okay if you don’t feel better, but you need to let me know.”
“Do you hate him, or do you want him, Ella? The question can’t be any simpler than that.” “Both!”
A lie neither of us believe, but still, it feels good to say it.
“Love overcomes common sense.
“Forcing someone to be with you is like driving through a wall and calling it a shortcut. It’s not real; you’re not going to get to your destination intact, if at all. But mostly, someone will get hurt.”
if love couldn’t stop him from destroying my life…why should it stop me from destroying his?
him carrying my bag and me carrying my regrets,
“I’ll try to save you, and I’ll probably die with you.”
I’m in love, for fuck’s sake. Can’t anyone fucking see that?”
tell Ella I love her. Tell her I tried with all I have to crawl out of a grave for her.”
“I wish it was easy loving her.”
The show feels strange once you’ve seen backstage.
You can’t unsee the strings holding the puppets.
“I don’t love what you did, and I don’t love the man you became to have me. But I love you.”
If I ever give you this journal, remember the day they tried to keep me away from you. And remember I crawled home to you.
