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He just wanted to feel whole, but every time she left him, she divided him and took half with her.
Before her, he moved through the world uncaring that any day could very well be his last. Since her, he put a little more effort into making it to see the next day,
“You know I don’t think you can say you love someone until you love the darkest parts of them,” Ethic said. “It’s easy to love when everything is good, when everything feels easy. It’s the darkness that tests true love.”
A woman didn’t nectar for a man that wasn’t meant to pick her fruit.
He was the type to take you on picnics and choose the book store for dates.
I made the mistake of loving a man more than I loved myself and thinking that the measure of love he had for me would be more than enough. It never is.
I swear to God, if I ever disappear on you it means I’m dead and gone because nothing or nobody will ever keep me away from you.
Sometimes, as women, we don’t want you to fix anything…sometimes, we just want you to be there while we figure out how to fix ourselves.”
“But because he’s lost his focus, he forgot that the woman every nigga wanted is the one in his possession, so he’s slipping.
You have years in with him. You’re invested, but you don’t love him anymore. It took him too long to change into the man you needed him to be and you built up walls to protect yourself from the man he was. He damaged the best parts of you in the beginning. He’s a different man now but, unfortunately for him, you’re different now too. The hurt he put on you has changed you.
Parts of her have melted into me so I couldn’t separate the sentiment from her on the darkest day. She’s in me. That means you and everybody else that was inside my heart before her had to get out,”
“The day you decide to let me in, I’m here. It doesn’t matter who comes, who goes. I’m right here. I’m not leaving,”
