№ 14.

we were lovers not even worth writing about.

“I used to think I was tough, but then I realized I wasn't. I was fragile and I wore thick fucking armor. And I hurt people so they couldn't hurt me. And I thought that was what being tough was, but it isn't.”
James Frey

"Does your boyfriend not know that blood is nature’s lubricant? Tell your dumb bf that the blood doesn't actually go inside the pee hole, it just gets on the skin, and that blood is easily removed from skin with water. GOD. Remind him that you drink the gross milky liquid that he stores inside his balls on a regular basis, and that he should just grow the fuck up and deal with it. My ex used to be a wuss about period sex too. He’d always fuck me, but then would make a grossed-out face afterward and whine about having to take a shower. At a point it was like, “Jeez, if it’s such torture to have sex with me then please don’t bother. I’ll gladly roll out onto the sidewalk outside my apartment building naked and wait for a REAL MAN to come along and do the job right.” 

SLUTEVER SMARTEST WOMAN ALIVE

“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender who you are, for what you may become.”

“What if you didn't run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”
Josh Bennett

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.”

 Albert Camus, The Fall 

“I remember the summer I fell in love, right before the autumn when I fell apart.”

“People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode”

THE#81 RULE OF A LADY:

YOU SHOULD BE ABLE

TO MAKE A MAN SMILE WITH

YOUR CLOTHES ON.

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.”
Rick Warren

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened…or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
Tupac Shakur

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy- but mysterious.But above all black says this: ‘I don’t bother you don’t bother me.”
YOHJI YAMAMOTO

It’s funny how, sometimes, if you just see the back of someone’s head, you know who they are. They might not be an integral part of your life; you might not have seen them in years. But for some reason, when you spot them distantly, you know who they are and memories of seconds spent together fill you with nostalgia for a different time or place. 

Sometimes we don’t realize the effect people have on us until we see them after we have become someone else.

“listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”

Robert Downey Jr

“I don’t think we should say ‘I love you’ every day,” he told her one afternoon. “I think we should save it for special moments. You know I love you; I don’t want the words to lose their meaning by saying them too often.”

THE 

NO. 136

RULES OF A GENTLEMAN

She comes first. Always.

Tracing the red lines on the map with her fingertip, she imagined a new life in every city along the way. New jobs, new loves, new friends, new selves.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful just to get away and start again?

IF YOUR GOING TO BE A LIAR, BE A GOOD LIAR OR DON’T BOTHER AT ALL.

 Did you mean it, she wanted to ask, when you said you loved me?And she had a conversation in her head brimming with confessions and forgiveness and heart-exhausting explanations.When she finally saw him, no words came. They smiled the way that people smile when they only vaguely recognize each other, and then went their separate ways.

“She cannot shake the feeling that maybe she is just broken.”

You have been a character
in my story for so long
how many more pages
until we realize
what we are meant to be?