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March 21 - March 23, 2025
“Choosing meaning over meaninglessness is vulnerable, and vulnerability isn’t wrong. It’s beautiful and brave.”
“It’s not childish to be idealistic,” he continued. “All the greats are.”
She was driving me fucking crazy. And I wanted to punish her for this obsession just as much as I wanted to protect her vulnerable, fearful heart like it was the precious gift that it was.
Good girl. Good fucking girl.
I would earn my angel’s trust. She was smart not to trust a man’s words. Actions were the only thing in this world that mattered.
Just because someone is drawn to your light, doesn’t mean they’re made of light themselves. Some recognize that you hold something they will never have, and they will do anything, anything at all, to try to starve that radiance until it dies. Because they’d rather you both live in darkness than for you to be the only one to shine.”
“Be grateful for the loneliness that has made you who you are,” I said, ignoring her lie. “But know that you don’t have to live in solitude anymore. There are others who see the world as you do. There are others who stood at the crossroads of greatness and mediocrity and made their necessary sacrifices.”
“I think I’ve always been waiting for you. My soul recognized yours the moment I saw you.”
“I don’t have words for the hold you have over me, angel,” he said softly. “There is no end to the depths of my obsession. Every inch of your body, every beat of your vulnerable heart, every shade of your multitudinous soul, and every thought in your beautiful mind—I need to see it all, to possess it all. Because you already possess me. I fear the lengths I would go, the distances I would travel, the atrocities I would commit to keep you safe. Or merely to ensure you always know just how much I adore you.”
“When parents neglect us emotionally, we may grow up to unconsciously repeat that same pattern in other relationships. Because it’s comfortable. This belief that we are deficient, that we need to earn another’s love by being someone we’re not. Because we were taught that who we are authentically will never be good enough.”
“My love is not contingent upon your behavior. You don’t have to perform for my love. You don’t have to beg for it. Or even ask very politely. I love you for existing. I love you for being you.”
