"Before you,
the days were good.
With you,
the days were better.
Without you,
the days will never be the same."

"I wasn't going
anywhere
anymore
anyway."

"If you were a storm, may I be your wind,
so I may be with you wherever you will go.
If you were the moon, may I be your poet,
and I will write about you in all the words
that I know."

"We went to the mountains and found a place to stay, where you were you and I was with you and we were both being ourselves. We were away from everything, but all that mattered was we weren’t away from each other."

" I am a ghost of sorts; a compilation of what ifs, an abundance of could've beens."

"Sometimes hearts sink like stones;
all the way to the bottom of the ocean."

"There are some things you just can’t fix. You wish you could, but you can’t. Here I was, hoping against hope that I will never see you again, that I’d be okay without you. And yet here you are, back in my life again, and I’ve realized that I am either with you or without you,
and without you I was never the same."

"Sometimes we can never quite forgive ourselves,
all we can do is try our best to forget."

"Reality makes longing all the more difficult."

"This story is about you, and in a way it’s also about me.
This story is about you, and what you mean to me."

"Never let anyone invalidate what you feel."

"No, I don’t believe we are here to work every day of our lives just to get by. We are made for music. We are born for love. We exist for adventure."

"Welcome home! I wonder if you knew how much those two words meant to me. It’s been so long and I’ve gotten so tired of drifting between empty apartment units. I was unmoored, out of sync with everything, and here you are, still waiting. Your arms weren’t the breaking point. They were home."

"Someday I will no longer be caught up in other people’s messes, far away from anyone who ever said they knew me but knew absolutely nothing about my dreams, my poetry, my sadness, or my fears. Someday I will no longer be part of this cycle of hate, forcing me to do things that I will never be happy about, making me hurt myself and the people I care about most. Someday I will be happy with who I am and what I am doing, and I will be freer than even birds."

"It is a terribly wondrous thing to be able to care so much about the lives you come across, but I know it can also be quite draining. So have my heart for now, and I will keep yours in safekeeping until it's back to tip-top shape."

You didn't mean to
I know
I know

No, not here
Not this time
This is the exception

You shivered
the sun was up
but somehow it still felt cold

"It is especially when the night is darkest
that your light shines through."

"You made sense
when everything didn't."

"I wasn't sad. A dozen or so sticks for company under a Parisian-esque twilight, I am missing your fingertips and the way the world felt right each time I held your hand in mine. I am missing every afternoon before class when I'd kiss you on the forehead when you were asleep because you may not hear me say that I love you but I sure do know that you can feel it. I miss breakfast, lunch, and dinner with you. I miss how with one look you could tell me that you couldn't finish your whole meal anymore. I miss you so, and when someone asks me about you, I am not sad; I am yearning. "

(noun)

The feeling of intense wonder for the Universe.

"The music closest to me? I can feel it in my chest,
playing in time with every single heartbeat."

"You make my life make sense."

"Rugged, weathered, tears here and there with rusted lungs, I still believe we were born to love. Keep that twinkle in your eyes; your very own shooting stars. The world is a cruel place, and I can only do so much to brace you for it. I love you, you know that right? When I am somewhere far away and you miss me always remember that I love you. "

“Whenever I tell you about my worries, your words are a constant reassurance. You help me see the distinction between what truly matters and what will only trouble my heart.
Let it be,
you’d say.
Let not these worries keep you from happiness. ”

"Like the setting sun beyond the horizon,
or the drizzle before the coming storm,
I miss you in waves;
slowly,
and then all at once."

"When you go, I will miss you very much, and this you know. You would never mean to hurt me, Darling, but you have to leave me behind as well, and the part that makes this difficult is that I will tell you to take care, even when I want you to stay."

"When I go, you will miss me very much, and this I know. I would never mean to hurt you, Darling, but I have to leave you behind as well, and the part that makes this difficult is that you will tell me to take care, even when you want me to stay."

You were staring out the window
wishing you were far away
from all... This.

"I don't want a love like that,
where someone feels entitled to be loved by you
when you feel like finding time for yourself.
I don't want a love like that for you."

" We all have that special place; that Montauk, Paris, or Vienna we share with someone very dear to us. So meet me in Montauk, meet me where the Sun touches, meet me where my heart fell to pieces, meet me where you first told me about your dreams, meet me where we first met. Our souls were meant for adventure and peace, and both I find with you."

"Our time together was fleeting,
but I am forever changed."

"She can be stubborn to a fault, ill-tempered, vain, petty, insensitive, and needy, but she can also be gentle, caring, selfless, understanding, patient, and loving. I wish I could say more; to be with her, giving my best to keep her safe whenever she feels the burdens on her two little shoulders -to share the love between us like we used to. But such is life, and sometimes two people love each other then one of them falls out of it while the other has to deal with the pain of staying, and somehow moving on."