Never again, would I use someone's approval as a thermometer for my self-worth.

You don’t have to act strong when you are strong. It is only those who are strong enough to risk being broken that are truly unbreakable.

Her thoughts were like the moon eclipsing the sun.

He was always right beside me, but we were never in the same place.

I didn't want to go down a road I'd already been on. Why was it so hard to turn away from something that was already gone?

You can never go back the way you came.

I wanted to keep him there to hold me up, to rely on, to remind that there were places we found in other people that were safer than any walls could keep us.

Maybe we love people forever. Maybe some relationships were derailed by time and circumstance, but somewhere in the background there was a place where that love still existed, where you were still those two people in that time.

Mistakes we make in the past sometimes keep us connected. Heartache keeps us connected. We want the past to be forgotten, to forget the people we’ve hurt and those who have hurt us and yet, it’s always there, in the periphery of our consciousness, because it has defined part of our life. A part of who we are.