Tell Me Lies

by Carola Lovering

Even if I don’t want to give a fuck, even if I convince myself I don’t, I always do.

You have to be careful of girls that are too pretty, though. They hold a power that they never had to earn.

When a guy calls you beautiful, there’s nothing quite like it.

It’s funny—when you get what you want, it almost automatically decreases in value.

Except I didn’t hate him at all. I loved him,

It was never supposed to be the end of us

You are killing me. You are destroying the fibers of me.

My own life would kill me.

Me core

Love is something you live and feel in real time, in every single moment, big or small. It’s reciprocal and often unglamorous. But we bank on it because it’s what gives life meaning.”

And all of a sudden I know, because when you figure out the truth you can feel it, hot and deep in your bones, and it feels different and familiar at once, like déjà vu, like opening your suitcase in a foreign place and smelling home.

But guys like that, in the end, when all the smoke has cleared, just make you realize what you don’t want.”