I Need You To Hate Me

by Genicious

“For me to hate you, I’d need to feel something—and frankly, I feel nothing for you.”

“It shows that despite their best efforts to forget each other, and despite each other's flaws and failures, they’re still willing to give it another chance. People can’t be modified by ignorance or renunciation,”

“And sometimes the worst things that we do lead us to the best things that happen to us,”

“If you only read what everyone else does, you can only think what everyone else is thinking,”

He gazes at me like I’m the stars when all I’ve ever felt before was the darkness that encircles them. He makes me feel insanely sane for the first time in my life. “It

“Not everything is defined by fate, and fate is almost always cruel and unfair.”

“It’s a waste of time and energy to analyze the past. To try put pieces back together, to justify what could have happened, when in reality, there’s nothing you can do to turn back the clock,” he says. My mouth gapes open. I can’t speak, I’m lost for words. He can’t read minds, I remind myself. It’s impossible, right?! “Living in the past only fucks up the present,”

“Would you like it if I told you that us being here was written in the stars?” he asks. “Hmm, yes. I would like to believe in something.” “You and me, we’re written in the stars, love.”

“The monsters that live in your mind really do exist. They just have the face of a human,”

Have we taken one step forward and two steps back?

Nothing can stay the same. We’re all part of a changing power that twists and turns us in unconceivable ways until we experience it for ourselves. There may be harsh and eccentric lessons to learn, but they are all a reminder that nothing stays the same—not even when you want it to. Every so often, that can be something to look forward to, and other times, it’s something we shy away from. Nevertheless, take everything as it comes, for it’s a gift to be able to move through time and experience what the universe offers you—no matter how forbidding it may seem.