The Black Notebook

by Isabelle Snow

“Um…follow your heart, but don’t ever leave your mind behind.”

he did have feelings for you, he would be the type to hide them—at least for a little while longer.”

It’s amazing how one person can change everything around you. They can turn your storms into sunshine and make your empty gray canvas a bright array of colors and light. And when you’re with that one person who has your heart in their hands, everything’s

“Sometimes your heart just can’t easily accept what your mind can. You know something’s wrong and yet your heart still dares to beg otherwise.”

Seven, I’m so sorry. I should’ve given you this notebook back right after discovering that it was your diary, but I was having so much fun reading your feelings and teasing you the next day that I kept delaying it…until I realized something really important. I realized that this beautiful, beautiful girl who wrote all of this amazing stuff about me really cares about me. I noticed you kept repeating your insecurities that I would never look your way.

I was openly crying now, my body trembling with sobs.

SAME

Sometimes when you’ve been pushed too far by life, it gets harder and harder to believe that anything good will happen to you. You think that it’s foolish to hope and you’re stuck in suspension, stranded between the lines of waiting for things to get worse and desperately wishing that your circumstances were different. But in actuality, it’s not at all foolish

her. “Love…sometimes, it isn’t as nice as it sounds. It can push you to do the worst kind of things to people, even the ones you care about. It frightens you to the point where all you think you can do to defend yourself is to hurt others.”

“Do you want to go out with me? And this time, I’m not asking you to pretend to be my girlfriend in front of everyone or anything stupid like that. I want to be the only one to kiss you. I want to be able to shout to the whole world that you are mine and I am yours. I want to shoot down those insecurities I read in your diary and have the chance to remind you each and every day that you are loved, that I love you.”

THIS HAD ME SCREAMING