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Throw. Books. Away. He might as well have stabbed me right in the heart
Crawling into bed next to a man who no longer loved me, no longer thought of me as desirable, and a man who told me more than once I was no longer good enough, hurt worse than crawling into the empty bed. Seeing my husband every day was a reminder that I had failed, through no fault of my own, on being the wife he wanted. And nothing I did could change that.
My husband fell out of love with me. Though, I was the one who had fallen, landing painfully at the bottom without a clue how to get myself back up. But you know what they say: fall seven times, get up eight. It wasn’t until I realized I was clinging onto nothing that I was able to get back up.
He didn’t love me, and as much as I feared being alone, it hurt more to be in a relationship where I already was alone.
“The hardest thing I’ve ever done was accept an apology I was never given.”
You tend to regret what you don’t do more, after all.”
important. Sometimes remembering how small you are in the grand scheme of things helps you not be such an asshole.”
Having someone there, someone who knows me and my goddamn flaws and accepts me for it, helps when shit gets dark
Once I flip open that first page, I get sucked in. Everything else fades away and only the words painted in front of me exist. My mind shapes the characters and places, putting personal touches on every single one of them. That’s the thing about books. Reading is an intimate process, as people and places take on those you’re familiar with. And half the time I don’t even realize it, and it just happens
I don’t know what alternate reality you live in, but here in the real world, getting turned down when you ask someone out is generally considered a bad thing
Life isn’t a romance novel after all, no matter how badly I want it to be.
“Sometimes things have to fall apart to be put back together. Your pieces weren’t in the right order and were all jumbled up inside.
“Life isn’t a fairytale. Life isn’t a book. Life isn’t a movie. There is no formula you have to follow in order to find happiness.
