“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.” ~Thomas Merton

“The saying ‘Things just don’t work like that’ is a lie; a horrible filthy lie.”

“Your idea of me is fabricated with materials you have borrowed from other people and from yourself. What you think of me depends on what you think of yourself. Perhaps you create your idea of me out of material you would like to eliminate from your own idea of yourself. Perhaps your idea of me is a reflection of what other people think of you. Perhaps what you think of me is simply what you think that I think of you.”

“You know you had a good night when you wake up the morning after fully clothed.”

“I have this amazing ability to fall for people I shouldn’t care about.” ~Chris

“Strange. But even when you know it has to end, when it finally does, you always get that inevitable twinge: Have I done the right thing?”

“It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but it’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want.”

“Sometimes, it’s easier to say that you’re fine instead of having to explain all the reasons why you’re not.”

“A life without love is like a year without summer.” ~Swedish Proverb

“My heart is on my sleeve and that’s where it’ll stay until the day you’re brave enough to walk my way and tell me the things you were too stubborn to say.”