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want-my-hands-in-his-hair hair.
There’s a war in his eyes, and I am by no means Switzerland,
I don’t understand attraction. What is it that draws people to each other? How can dozens of women walk through the doors to this bar every week and I don’t feel the urge to give any of them a second glance? But then this girl waltzes in, and I can’t take my fucking eyes off her.
I just want someone to listen to me. To hear me out. To understand how much I’m suffering.
I preferred the neglect over the verbal abuse.
being here . . . it’s like I can be my truest, most authentic self. I can cry. I can be in a bad mood, or sad, or happy. Any of those moods are accepted here. I don’t feel that anywhere else.” The way he described it made me sad I never had it. “I don’t know what that’s like,” I said.
Regret keeps you stuck on pause.
She’s right. In the end, if there’s nothing good going on in your life, almost every song becomes depressing, no matter what it’s about.
If there’s one thing spending five years without a life taught me, it’s that I don’t want to waste a single second of the life I have left being scared of confrontation. My cowardice is a big part of why my life has turned out the way it has.
He might not know me, but he feels like the only person I know.
I fucking like her, and the more I’m around her, the more I don’t want to be apart from her.
I forgot what it felt like for someone else to need me. Want me. Like me.

