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The air is tinged with salt and I stare out at the long, wide stretch of beach curving out towards cliffs on the far side.
I wonder if he’d known Ivy.
she knows nothing about her :(
it’s as if there’s nothing standing between us. No history or missed chances.
statue of a fat man
buddha?
That she’d stopped taking drugs only to die with them in her system is just too sad for words.
:(
I’ve always been a beach person.
The calmness of our surroundings helps to clear my mind in a way it hasn’t been for what feels like an eternity.
grief can feel like being out on a canoe in the middle of the sea, at the mercy of changeable weather. If our beach walk was like sailing under a sunny sky then this feels like being pulled in by dark clouds looming on the horizon as my belly drops with a pang of longing.
Yep. I’d say she made a good life for herself. A well-deserved one, too.’
I suppose that, in my view, we’re energy, just like everything else in the universe. I think that our consciousness or spirit or soul makes a home in the body that we’re in and afterwards it goes back.’
One of the strangest things that happens when someone dies is that life really does go on and, I suppose, in a way it’s comforting. That feeling of getting swept away by grief hasn’t just disappeared.
You can trigger a reaction – anger, jealousy, whatever it might be. But the way they act on that emotion is always down to them and never down to you.’
If only I’d have known, it could’ve all been so different.
:((
The feel of his hand on my hip is still there like an imprinted memory, and a smile tugs at my insides against my will.
hellooooo
No, but you don’t have to keep on punishing yourself. It’s sad as fuck that things happened the way they have, but it’s not like you haven’t paid enough for it.
the man who is has just told you he still loves you and you’re running away from it.’
You have got to stop holding yourself back from your life.
You can’t keep running away from the things you’re scared of.
someone who can prove that good things can come out of shitty situations.’
Finn: This doesn’t have to be a goodbye.
I LOVE FINN
This has to be goodbye.
WHY.
The feeling of someone who cares for you, just because.
Don’t be a stranger.’
it wasn’t enough to get the things you wanted – you had to feel you deserved them too.
it will hurt until you let it hurt.
life’s too short and beautiful to hold on to hurt.
