195 quotes found
“Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.”
“He loved me, but in a lukewarm way. I needed scalding, but he loved in one temperature; tepid.”
“In case you didn't know... You are her. The one he let get away.”
“Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was took a while to recover from. But after ripping my own self worth to shreds for so long, I realized that I wasn't less just because I was mor...”
“They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you - and judge you - and everything you stand for. Their words will cut through your heart-str...”
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed moans. It calls to me for rescue, yet clings to its abductor.”
“She was a warrior by day... playing her part. But she slept at night with wishes in her heart.”
“I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner.”
“Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.”
“I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journa...”
“She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.”
“Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything.”
“Experience taught me that when pride wins... we all lose.”
“How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?”
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. S...”
