i have always avoided fights. i make jokes
instead. i tell people what they want to hear in order to avoid a confrontation.
i pretend to want things i don't want, and i pretend not to want things i do
want. no one gets hurt. except me. the lines are so crossed and blurred at this
point that i don't know what i want. i just know i want it to be easy.

sometimes talking is the best way to solve a
problem, even if it means shoving away some of your pride because if you didn't
talk about your feelings you could lose someone really important in your life
over something as simple as a word.

the most beautiful people we have known are those
who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have
their way out of the depths. these persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a
deep loving concern. beautiful people do not just happen.

The thing about addiction is it never ends. Well, because
eventually whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts
to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but
how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is
hurting us, sometimes letting go hurts even worse.

I like how sleeping next to someone means more than sex sometimes.
It’s the body’s way of saying ‘I trust you to be by my side at my most
vulnerable time.’ You have no defences when you are asleep, you tell no lies

I'm sorry if I don't want to be your friend and smoke and drink with you it's just I want to have friends who have a bright future ahead of them I don't want to feel sorry for my friends I want to be able to congratulate them.
I want to love someone whose heart has
been
broken so that they know exactly how
it feels and won't break
mine.

I'm a bitch because I don't put up with people's bullshit.

I'm a girl. I overreact. I underestimate. I over think everything. I dream big.
And when I say I love you, I'm not lying.

Don't ask for my opinion and get mad when I tell you the truth.

Hold on to the
ones who really care, in the end they'll be the only ones there. When you get
old and losing hair, can you tell who will still care?

"He makes me think about things I've never thought about before. Not by
what he says, but by the way he looks at me. The way he smiles at me makes us
connect in a way I never thought possible."


I cannot believe
that the purpose of life is to be happy. i think the purpose of life is to be
useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. it is, above all to matter, to
count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at
all


Anyone can give
up. it's the easiest thing in the world to do. but to hold it together when
everyone else would understand if you fell apart; that's true strength.

You know what i
want more than anything in the world right now? to talk to you, to be with you,
this very instant. i want to sit across from you indian style and look into your
eyes and see for myself exactly how they change color in the light. i want to
hold your hand in the palm of mine, and trace every line with my fingertips