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His emotions are always a shade of blue. But not blue like the sky; blue like the ocean.
Either I feel everything too much or I feel nothing at all, and I honestly couldn’t tell you which is worse.
I’m like a balloon with all the air let out, and I don’t know how to inflate again.
My body feels like it’s filled with bees.
They make me feel things. Like, feelings of my own. Jesus, that’s dumb. The Great Amazing Feelings Boy strikes again.
it’s now just a private smile for himself. Well, and me. But he doesn’t know that.
We don’t always have to love ourselves in order to receive love from others. Sometimes that’s how we learn to love ourselves.”
But knowing someone’s feelings doesn’t give me a guidebook on how to respond to them.
I’m gripping so hard on the precious thing in my hands so that it doesn’t float away that I just might break it instead.
I’m reminded my mom is actually a human being and not just the lady who runs my life and takes care of me. When did my parents become people?
It’s been a bad week. And, fuck, it’s only Wednesday.
He’s doing that thing again—looking at me like I hold all the answers. Like I am the answer.
