“In truth, all I wanted to say was,
I love you, and that is all there is to me.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“You are responsible for your own heart,
your own healing. - Camille Silao Fabia”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“I rejoice that I have a heart big enough to break over and over again.”
Source: Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga
“People normally say "don't cry like a little girl", because the grief behind crying like a boy is too great for the heart to bear, and we shouldn't wish that for anyone.”
“...I had a horrible suspicion that I'd wind up in the same heartbreak hotel as I did with men. 'No you won't,' he reasoned. 'You be the man and that way you get to be the shit.”
Source: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Congratulations.' But it's too late. He's already put it out there and now my brain has grabbed onto 'Just be careful' and won't let go. I try to tell it he might have meant 'Just be careful when you have sex. Use a condom,' but instead, because, you know, it's a brain, and therefore it has-is-a mind of its own, it starts thinking of every way in which Violet Markey might break my heart.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Losing you was the worst thing that's ever happened to me, and I still feel the echo of that”
Source: Love and Other Words
“At times you’ve no one around to be blamed for all the shit you have to go through in life. It’s not always the mistake of the people of the world that you were not granted something you wished so bad to have. It’s just not written for you. It’s not as easy to feel as it sounds to hear this fact from your loved ones who’re trying to console you or read anywhere on a paper, unless and until you’re in those circumstances experiencing the thing you loved the most taken away from your hands. Every second feels like torture that you’ve never heard, never encountered, or experienced before.”
Source: Breaking a Pledge
“Knowing him was sweatpants and suntans and riding in his Jeep until the sky turned pink and purple. Growing up with him involved the best days, fishing off his dock as crickets chirped in the background, watching outdoor movies until we fell asleep on his old bedspread. It was love. It was young. And I feel it all still, burning in the places it shouldn’t be.
Even though he betrayed me.”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“Time. I knew well enough that time numbed certain things”
Source: Love and Other Words