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we’re both going to get on with the rest of our lives without ever mentioning this again.
“Sawatdee kha.”
though I haven’t got anywhere near to finding love, I am having some kind of mini epiphany.
in-patient in recovery, learning how to forgive myself for the mistakes I’ve made and acknowledging that I’m still me, still a good person and
one day I might even deserve ...
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Koh Lipe, and the island is working it’s laid-back magic into my skin and bones.
“Khop khun kha,”
“You could have lied and I’d have believed you.” “I find that lies encumber me.”
“I feel like a starfish.”
something in me is determined to do the opposite of what I’d normally do.
There’s something about living in a different place that allows you to be whoever you want to be.
“Let’s not make each other promises,” I say.
“I like you, Starfish. You’re interesting.”
when he looks at me there’s a kindness in his eyes that warms me.
“I can’t remember the last time I felt this peaceful.”
completely unprepared and unwilling to return to the world we belong to. But who’s to say that you have to belong to somewhere forever, anyway?
it’s amazing. I’ve never felt this wanted or cared for in my life.
life is pulling everyone in different directions, it seems.
we come from two different worlds.
Be happy, you stupid, stupid man. And let me be too.
“You’re always the most spectacular woman to me,
Laurie has grown up when I wasn’t looking. It’s time for me to do the same.
It’s going to be okay. Let’s just get there first, you and me together, one step at a time.”
“You and me. One step at a time.”
I know how painful it can be letting someone you think you love go, but that I don’t believe there’s only one person in the world for each of us.
he’ll probably find that he stops thinking about her so much, because that’s just how it goes,
there comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy, because being sad f...
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one day, you’ll look back, and you’ll not be able to remember exactly what it was you...
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sometimes, rarely, people can come back into your life.
if that happens, you should keep those people close to you forever.”
At least I’m alive, everyone keeps telling me, look on the bright side,
Please let us help you. Let me help you. Let me be your friend again.”
“It’s always been like this with us, hasn’t it?”
“When you look at me, I know that you really see me. I don’t think anyone ever has, Lu. Not the way you do.”
all of the people I love are in danger of giving up on me.
Our friendship is brittle, fire-damaged; as I look back on it I can’t discern if it’s ever been as genuine as I thought it was.
Who’s to say what’s right and wrong with love, anyway?
apologized, begged me, almost, and the intense, broken way he looked at me put a crack in my heart. I knew he meant it. He’d hurt me, but he’d hurt himself more.
“You need to actually be there, to listen,” she says. “You haven’t been there for a long time,
“How will it ever be okay?”
I’ll always be in the background of your life, and you’ll always be in mine. We’ve been friends for too long to stop now.”
Just two people, about to part ways.
good enough is not enough, that they were each other’s ninety percent.
“More than three years together, and I have no clue what to say.”
“I’ve blamed him in my head for everything that’s gone wrong,
For the fact that we saw less and less of each other, for how much we’d grown apart or been pushed apart by our different lives, perhaps.
“You just need to look after yourself, make sure you’re okay.”
there’s a part of me that’s relieved.”
It’s been a constant effort, and I don’t know if love should feel like that, you know?
don’t mean making an effort for each other…I mean making an effort to be someone ever so slightly different from who we really are.
