Stone Cold

by Winter Renshaw

someone doesn’t have a heart you can’t go around offering them yours —Rupi Kaur, Home Body

half the time people do things, they don’t know why they do them.

Love, hatred, and everything in between makes people act in ways they normally wouldn’t dare.

“Nostalgia is a beautiful liar,” I say. “It lets us paint the past any way we want to.”

you have to put your family first. It’s just how it goes.

People fall in love with the idea of marriage or the idea of what a marriage should be instead of falling in love with the flawed human being they’re marrying.”

You’re crashing at your friend’s place but she’s sitting at home looking at all the reminders of the life you two were building together while you were going behind her back looking up an ex-girlfriend.”

You can’t put all these restrictions on your own happiness.