Pillow Thoughts

by Courtney Peppernell

But the world is exhausted, and the only wealth we have left is love.

Perhaps it’s just easier to smile and pretend everything is fine, rather than admit my heart’s a little swollen from losing something that wasn’t even mine.

letting someone in is scary enough but even scarier when your heart isn’t as strong.

Where do I go when a lover and a friend becomes a memory and a dead end?

You spend your whole life convincing yourself you are a chapter worth following, and then someone comes along and doesn’t want to read the ending, and suddenly the whole story falls apart.

please don’t close your heart to love. You need love, and love needs you. You are the sun, and the moon, and every star and you deserve someone who will cross the universe for you.

You can be seventeen or seventy-eight and still make mistakes. Try not to punish yourself too much over them.