F*ck Love

by Tarryn Fisher

Sometimes a person’s truth is another person’s love.”

I think that the right girl can wipe away the memories of the wrong girl.”

“We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It’s just the reactions we control.”

I abandon before I can be abandoned.

I ignited something in your heart, and then left you to burn on your own.

No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.

Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?

“There is only war in love,” he says. “If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re lying. The constant fight to keep love relevant, while growing and changing as a human, is the battle. You fight for them, fight to keep them, fight to love them. Do you fight for yourself, or do you fight for the relationship? What can’t you live without? There’s your answer.”

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”

Live barefoot and fucking fight.

Embrace the lows so that you can more effectively enjoy the highs. Love the fight. Love it so much, and let it save you when your emotional muscles have become soft.