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“And so I just kept writing to myself.”
“Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.”
“But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me.”
“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”
“I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.”
“I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.”
“The voice sang on, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine. I played it again. I was not fine.”
“Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. Youre worthy. Stamp. Youre enough. You have not failed completely. Stamp, stamp.”
“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be Gods way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.”
“We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that ...”
“Unfortunately, he still hadnt asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.”
“I didnt answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.”
“I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to surround yourself with people who are better than you, and I was now living that mantra.”
“Thats how it felt that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.”
“I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile...”
“I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldnt say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying for him. I wrote down all the jokes I...”
“I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt lik...”
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittanys bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.”
“He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: If I get that girls number I will never ask another girl for her number again.”
“On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective wh...”
“I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever.”
