I don’t know who my first heartbreak was. Maybe it was all of them, maybe none of them. Maybe it was my father when he became the first man to refuse me his love. Or maybe it was hurting someone else that made my heart ache.
- C. H.
“But he wasn’t written for her and no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t rewrite the story.”
- C. H.
“Maybe if I was good enough you would have stayed.”
-12:34 AM
Nikki Giovanni, from “Poem (for EMA)”
“I want you and I don’t want to be a luxury. I want you to need me. I want you to not be able to concentrate because you’re thinking about me. I want you to reach for your phone because you thought of something you have to share with me. I want you to not even be able to breathe at the thought of never seeing me again, because that’s how I feel about you.”
— Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Needed (via thebrokenquotes)
my brain saw the slippery slope of unhealthy coping mechanisms and grabbed a fucking sled
“Not everyone who comes into our life is meant to stay. So stop holding onto people who clearly don’t want to be with you.”
— Unknown