“I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I cant stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.”

“Im glad we can be friends.Theres that word again. Its like a safe word.”

“The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isnt fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hand...”

“I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. I loved him. Thats what dumb girls do.You arent dumb.I try to hold back my smile. Im hanging out with you, arent I?”

“I didnt know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.”

“Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.”

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”

“I stayed, to love you.I left, to love myself.”

“I'm a completely worthless woman and no man should risk his life for me.”

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt co...”

“It made him feel like less of a man. And given how much less of a man hed felt the past several weeks, that was really saying something. He was surprised someone from the Man Club hadnt come by to ...”

“Bad enough that getting turned on when he had nothing more than a bath towel to hide it would make the condition kind of hard to miss, but getting turned on in front of his ex-fiancee was akin to s...”

“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?”