“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”— Stephen King, The Body (via perrfectly)
“I miss you but I shouldn’t. Because we’re told, not to miss people that have hurt us. We’re told to move on. But that must mean there’s something wrong with me. Because I miss you so much it hurts.”—
My heart has ached a thousand times. And in each of these moments of loss and pain and the fear turning insane. I seek strength, to gain the power to endure again another heartache a thousand times.
“I’ve spent years holding this hurt, I’ve let it build and build to the point where I carry it with me, wherever I go. It sits on top of my shoulders, weighing me down with every step I take. There are days I don’t think I’ll be able to get out of bed, days I think I’ll be weighed down to death. I carry this pain, carry it in the palms of shaky hands, carry it in my mouth with a clenched jaw, carry it on my back with weak knees. I hold onto this hurt, because letting go feels like giving up.”— Isabel Cabrera / /
if i let go, is it giving up?