#poem

The ones who hurt us cannot heal us. That’s not the way it works. That’s not the way it ever works.

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You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

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You owe yourself the love you so freely give to others.

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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you are sorry if you hurt someone. Chase

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Some people aren’t loyal to you. They’re loyal to their need of you then, once their need changes, so does their loyalty.

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Your happiness is the greatest revenge against those who’d love to bring you down.

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Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life: it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

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Don’t give them a taste of their own medicine. They already know what it tastes like. Give them a taste of your own medicine.

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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The most beautiful people wear their heart on their sleeve, and their soul in their smile.

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You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want

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It hurts my head to think of how many things had to happen for our paths to intersect. Of all those numberless little

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Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

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You are always stronger than you think you are.

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The best listeners listen between the lines.

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Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

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If it doesn’t help to move you forward, leave it behind.

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Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day

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Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our life.

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You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force.

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