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Because the moment you find out you’re not exempt from heartache, it feels like that’s all you’re good for.
I’d felt so disgustingly foreign like I’d been transplanted into this strange flesh that didn’t even belong to me. But could another person make you feel that way? Like jumping out of your skin, wanting to, just to escape the anticipation of their rejection.
it rippled off the ocean. * * * I saw
They cut you into pieces with lies and false apologies and those three little words that always manage to gut you in just the right way.
strings aren’t meant to connect us to other people but to hold us together, and when one of them gets clipped, it’s not just the relationship that unravels but us.
No one ever wants a lifetime worth of waiting. You don’t choose that life. You tolerate it. You endure. When you know what it is you’re waiting for, you endure.