sometimes i wish i never met you so i wouldn’t know the feeling of knowing you but not being able to have you around
COLLECTED
Quotes
for quiet evenings
Read it in the room, by lamplightsometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
thank you for letting me go because i wouldn’t have walked away
i don’t wanna have to be a memory to feel like i’m someone you thought of
if we had met differently at a different place at a different time would we had stood a chance?
if i believed in myself as much as i did in you maybe i wouldn’t hurt so much
the fact that it’s not killing you like it’s killing me says everything
no one else made sense until you and now— nothing else makes sense after you
the way someone leaves tells you everything you need to know about them
if it was meant to be we would still be together
i wish i could put the love i give to other people to myself
you were okay before you will be okay after
how many times can you say goodbye to a person before you finally leave them?
i was stupid i gave my heart to someone who didn’t want it now i’m stuck with someone who doesn’t want me and me not wanting anyone else
it was in the process of loving you that i realized i’ve lost myself
the idea of things having a chance to work out always make me excited but it is also what kills me at the same time
if it doesn’t hurt it isn’t love i saw this quote once and thought that was how love is supposed to be - i couldn’t be more wrong
you think to yourself this time it’s different but it hurts the same when it’s over every single time
the journey it takes to get over someone is a journey too gruesome for some you’re making progress but you are not really getting anywhere
i saw this quote ‘hurt people hurt people’ and i think about how you hurt me and i hurt myself
and that’s the thing about people who fall in and out of love we only want someone we can’t have
two lonely souls have a way of clinging onto each other we knew we weren’t compatible but we held on so that we weren’t alone
when we first met i had no idea that i would become so attached
the irony: being with you made me feel like i wasn’t enough without you i’m feeling like i don’t have enough
i believe there will always be a place in my heart that still hurts whenever i think of you
it takes a while for you to know what your mind knows your mind knows by accepting understanding and letting go your heart knows when you hurt until it doesn’t hurt anymore
but is it my own fault if i keep creating expectations just to watch them get broken?
i’m hungry but i have no appetite it’s hard to be when you have this feeling inside your stomach eating you out from within
i can’t believe how quickly we went from everything to nothing
and what does it mean if the person who told you that they will never leave finally leaves?
i gave myself excuses for the way you treated me because i thought it was supposed to hurt i thought love was supposed to hurt i took the red flags and saw it as signs for passion the fights we had as a form of communication the cold war as giving each other more space every hurt that came along as a sign of love when i was in pain i thought i was in love i put myself through it all and then i won
i keep rereading our old messages like the ending might change if i read them one more time
i don’t miss you i miss who i was when i thought you would stay
it’s 3am again and my mind is replaying every word i said looking for the moment i ruined everything
i overthink because once i didn’t think enough and lost everything
you were the first person i wanted to tell things to now you’re the last person i’m allowed to
some nights the silence is so loud i put on music just so i don’t have to hear myself think
i’m surrounded by people who love me and somehow still lonely in a room full of voices
we didn’t end with a fight we ended with less and less until there was nothing left to lose
the hardest part isn’t letting you go it’s letting go of the version of you i made up in my head
i hate that songs i loved before you now sound like you
maybe i wasn’t too much maybe you were just not enough to hold it
i say i’m fine so often i almost believe it until i’m alone
you taught me how it feels to be chosen and then how it feels when someone stops
i don’t know what hurts more that you left or how easy it was for you
i keep checking if you’re online not to talk just to know you still exist somewhere without me
healing isn’t a straight line some days i’m okay and some days a song in a store puts me back at the start
i was never afraid of being alone i was afraid of being with you and still feeling alone
it’s strange how a stranger became my whole world and then a stranger again
i wanted you to fight for me but you let me walk away like you were waiting for it
my mind writes conversations we will never have and i still rehearse my lines
you don’t get closure from the person who hurt you you give it to yourself
one day your name will just be a name again and i will smile because it won’t hurt
i got so used to being the one who stays i forgot i was allowed to leave too
the worst kind of tired is the kind sleep doesn’t fix
i miss you but i miss me more the me before you the one who didn’t need anyone to feel whole