The Road Between

by Courtney Peppernell

Small things lead to big things, it’s just some people want to skip over it. I don’t want to miss out on that.

Just because someone else doesn’t validate you doesn’t mean you can’t validate yourself

If they can justify why they broke your heart, they are not sincere. If they can continuously turn your pain into pain of their own, they are not sincere. Selfish people will find reasons and excuses. They will turn themselves into the victim time and time again because they do not want to take responsibility for the guilt. Someone who is genuinely sorry will never choose whether they hurt you or not. Instead they will accept the pain they caused you, and they will say, “I’m sorry.”

The ache doesn’t have an expiration date any more than healing has a time limit.

When you let someone into your heart and they make a mess, you don’t have to keep them in your life.

A monster in disguise, a person who lies. But in the end I thanked you for showing me that the illness and the selfishness are not an excuse.

Scars show a journey, but first the wounds need to close.

I asked her what had happened and she told me the pain had come from within.

The grief feels like lightning never striking the same place twice

In February she sat on the balcony with a notebook and her tea and she wrote everything down about feeling alive again and what it’s like just to be

It fills all the spaces that were once so hollow.

But sometimes it’s not about changing it’s about accepting that not all things can be changed

Not every day will be pleasant. There is going to be thunder and lightning.

Little bursts of jealousy are good sometimes. They keep you driven, keep you motivated. They’re like small flowers seeing tall flowers and wanting to grow a little more.

You are already an atom that makes the world different. You are already needed for its balance.

There is a longing when you are apart from the one you love. It is a pain found in each mile the distance leaves. It stays with you, weighs so heavy on your chest, some days it’s hard to breathe.

All the pain you carry inside you will be stardust soon,

A hunger to improve is powerful.

It’s about you and what you learned along the way

in case you didn’t know I’m happier without you

Don’t make a mess of someone else’s heart just because you are trying to figure out yours. Tell them from the start: I don’t know what I want, so make sure you protect your heart.

You have to let them grieve the person they left behind.

People don’t notice the things they no longer care for.

That heart of yours may feel delicate at times especially when someone creates holes it never asked for But don’t deny it the chance to love again never be ashamed to love harder than the love before

The hardest of people could be the ones who crumble in your arms.

Shared memories are remembered differently

Relationships are not meant to be a cage. You are meant to work as a team. If your teammate isn’t running with you, then don’t bother with the marathon.

Stop apologizing for not being the things you think someone wants you to be. That is not your responsibility. It’s their responsibility to love these things about you.

Hold on to the ones who notice. They are usually the people who ask Are you okay Even when you’ve spent the whole night pretending.

Sometimes it’s difficult to be nice to others not because we don’t want to but because they’re not easy to be good to

You will choose the wrong path hundreds of times before you choose the one that makes sense.

always remember the most beautiful flower takes its time to bloom

You are allowed to outgrow someone.

Everybody gets lost and it is hard to come home again

But if you do not speak, and you do not feel, then how can you possibly move on?

first you must learn that struggle makes you strong and while pain may hurt and burn you will need these things to live you will need them to live long

Sometimes words are the last thing you need Instead you just need silence and a cup of tea

I want someone to feel safe with me.

remember you can win this war

Things your heart wants you to Know

you are an adventure, of lost maps and highways.

Even the smallest of dreams have meaning.

It’s just some people grow in opposite directions, others grow beside each other, and some grow entwined.

She doesn’t open up easily and she has high walls.

Some chapters will be harder to read than others.

You don’t get to define how someone bleeds You don’t get to choose how someone opens their heart and splits at the seams

When everyone else told me I was a closed case you were the first to remind me I was an open book

To know there is nothing else they need other than your hand in theirs and your heart on their sleeve.

Before you go to sleep you will think about all the miles you have to go. And while you dream, I will whisper how proud I am of you more than you’ll ever know.

Don’t let those words in. Keep them hanging in the air until they fade away into nothing. Because nothing is going to strip you of who you are and what you deserve.