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To the man who stood beside me on that ledge, took my hand in his & leapt so fearlessly into the unknown with every fiber of his beautiful heart— My life is infinitely better because you love me.
“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign or weakness nor a lack of faith, it is the price of love.”
Reading her words crack open my chest, threatening to open my own wounds that I’ve deluded myself into thinking have been healed for years.
think it’s foolish to think the pain of a writer’s past doesn’t inadvertently find itself woven within the heart of their work.”
“So, do dates with you always come with complimentary wine or is this a special occasion?” he says through a dazzling smile. “Oh, am I on a date?” I tease, resting my chin on my hand. “Where is he?”
he’s faced every concern and insecurity of mine head on, giving it value and then just carrying on.
his reaction gives me butterflies the size of pterodactyls.
hardly anything worth doing, and doing right, is comfortable.”
“The stories we tell, the ones that we are privileged enough to be the keepers of and share with the world, sometimes those stories, and the authors who write them, need protecting.”
with him, it feels
like exhaling. That’s the only way I can describe it. Like I’ve been holding this breath my entire life,”
“And then this man comes along, and he sees me for who I am, and for the first time i...
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My father, one of the few people on this earth who is genetically programmed to love me, could not or would not choose me. An act that has left a scar on my heart so deep, so profoundly mangled, and unfixable, that I’ve convinced myself I’m unworthy of love from anyone, unless I’m this perfect version of who they want me to be. Love has always felt conditional.
Her deep, brown eyes offer a kindness I can only assume comes with years in this field—cheering alongside patients during happy and healing moments and grieving with them during the hard ones.
forgiveness is for us…not for the person who needs forgiving.”
But to every member of the LGBTQIA+ community, regardless of where you are on your personal journeys with your identity–whether you are out or still learning to love who you are–know that you are loved and worthy and have a whole community rooting for you to find your happy. More than anything, I hope you know that you deserve to live a life filled with the most beautiful and magical love you could ever hope for.
