You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
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I always think of you before I fall asleep. The words you said, the way you looked. The things we laughed about, the silent moments we shared. And when I dream, I’ll dream of you. Because it’s about you, it’s always about you.
I want to say I love you. I want to say that I am so, hopelessly, desperately, absolutely in love with you. But words are the knives that can tear a fragile friendship into a million ribbons, never to be whole again. So I have to make a choice. No matter what I feel, you must never know the truth. I might love you, I might be crazy, but no matter what I think I feel…you can never know.
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
Jim Butcher
, White Night(via ethereal-anomaly)
Everyone has a soft spot, something that can make them smile even when they’re dying inside.
Mine just happens to be him.
An intimate relationship is not necessarily a physical relationship. Rather, it is a trusting, close friendship with another person in which one can be honest without fear of rejection.
The hardest part of all is the simple fact that I was not good enough. And I cannot tell you how many nights I’ve laid awake wondering why.
I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
There is nothing beautiful about the wreckage of a human being. There is nothing pretty about damage, about pain, about heartache. What is beautiful is their strength, their resilience, their fortitude as they display an ocean of courage when they pick through the wreckage of their life to build something beautiful brand new, against every odd that is stacked against them.