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when people are different and don’t believe the same things, it’s not likely that a life together would ever work.
Maybe, somewhere along the way, she had become complacent, allowed herself to believe that what was done was done.
And she could not help but wonder if, in the end, a single choice that had seemed so right at the time, an act of obedience on her part, would be the final definition of so many lives.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
still swimming upstream when it would have been so much easier to follow the natural path of things and simply stay away.
She knew the danger of letting herself think about him. But then where Matt was concerned, logic had never applied. Her response to him had always come from her heart, unexpected, unsummoned, and at first, unwelcome.
“You don’t get to choose, you just fall.” – Author Unknown
can’t sleep. I want to. I actually long for it, that moment when my eyes close and awareness slips away. But tonight, it shows me no mercy, and I lie here in bed, staring at the shadows on the ceiling, my thoughts refusing to shut down.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. – Author Unknown
It was hard to love something with all your heart and at the same time want to be something so very different.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte
Life is full of blind curves, and who am I to question the rightness of the direction you chose? But I do know this to be true. Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in. And maybe that is the one thing we should somehow find a way to do.
She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.
If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
“Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” ― John Keats
One of the hardest things about being a grown-up is the choices we have to make. I wish I could say you can have everything you want. But it doesn’t work that way.
She felt completely transparent, as if he could see every feeling pulsing through her heart the way an x-ray brought into clear view the individual bones of the body.
The only gift is a portion of thyself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
That real love doesn’t set boundaries or guard with jealousy those at which it is directed. Real love, whatever its origin, is to be shared. Welcomed. Valued.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
maybe life has to force us into a corner sometimes before we can take an honest look at where we are.”
He’d been a good man, but she understood the difference between the kind of love a woman was simply taken over by and the kind she chose in a rational decision.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anaïs Nin
Maybe it’s out of desperation that we force the pieces together, even when the joints don’t quite fit, so that in the end there is really no chance for permanence.
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Author Unknown
Choices are the hinges of destiny. – Pythagoras
people didn’t get to choose their tragedy. Tragedy chose its people.
Today, she felt as if the boundaries were choking her.
Our hearts are lamps for ever burning… – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.” – Epictetus
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë
People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions. – Marcel Proust
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot
And maybe it was time she let him go. He was a man who deserved to be loved with the entirety of a woman’s heart, and in this way, she had failed him completely.
