I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.
I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.
...the hardest word to swallow is almost.
I wanted to say "don't leave me," but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.
She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.
This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.
I knew you didn't love me, but I dangerously adored you anyways.
People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.
The secret is love is a chaotic mess of every emotion we humans have given a name to.
Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as if she were the answer. She had become afraid to admit that sh...
And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls for a pretty face.
I will show you all the ways in which you are easy to love.
You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action.
This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.
I hope these simple things are what I forever love about life, for then I will be happy no matter where I find myself.
But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.
I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.
Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you have...
