“You love him, you do, and here’s the miracle: he loves you too. You are allowed to lick off the colour from his lips to listen to the hymns in his pulse to bask in the sunlight of his voice You are allowed to have him. You love each other, you do, and here’s the tragedy: it’s not enough. You are allowed to watch the sun swallow him whole and burn him up to stain your fingers to the bone holding him together to count the constellations in his eyes as they blink out You are not allowed to save him.”— you can love him, but you can’t keep him ( j.p. )
(via booksandghosts)
“I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.”—
“People get drunk. They kiss the wrong people. And pretend to be okay. People will do anything to distract their heart. They will do anything to distract it from missing someone.”—
On denial
“something is coming”—
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”—
“Even the stars are excited for the moment you and I are reunited.”—
“You’ll lose it if you talk about it.”—
“The feeling you get when you think of something amazing then forget it and know that it felt amazing but you can’t remember the details. Then, minutes later, you remember it again and you’re so grateful because you nearly lost something amazing, forever. Except, this time, it’s a person. Not an idea.”—
kill me and use my blood as ink to tell your lover how i was never enough for you