lets pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow...
the person is real, and the feelings are real, but you create the context. and context is everything. the person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person the happen to meet the first time you really, really want to love someone. but that person still wins. they win, and you lose. because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.
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you're cynical and beautiful
you always make a scene
you're monochrome delirious
you're nothing that you seem.
i'm drowning in your vanity;
your laugh is a disease.
you're dirty and you're sweet,
you know you're everything to meeeee
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remember our first love? we will always have zack rice. we would both lift up our shirts; kissed him once, you kissed him twice. tell me stories of myself that i don't remember. i was too drunk or too young; i'm not real sure which one...
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don't tell me it doesn't matter. i'll tell you what matters. bare feet in the summer, open windows at night. you think that no one needs you.
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just say what you mean and mean what you say. don't expect someone to read your mind, and don't play games with heads or hearts. don't tell half-truths, and execpt trust when the full truth comes out. half-truths are no better than lies. don't be cold to someone you care about; indifference hurts more than angry words.
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it's boys like you that make me think i'm better off home on a saturday night, with all my doors locked up tight. i won't be thinking about you, baby.
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i lace my chucks, i walk the aisle. i take my pills, the babies cry. all i hear is what's playing through the in-flight radio... now every word of every song i ever heard that made me want to stay is what's playing through the in-flight radio. i'm finally waking up...
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we're all a little weird, and when we find those people whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call them our best friends.
[boy meets world]
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too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring... all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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life can be cruel when you don't get a clear end like you do a beginning. there is something to be said for clean-cut barriers, for defining a particular moment that ended and began a new chapter of your life. so what do you do when the ending isn't quite over yet? it's already begun, and yet it's far from being finished. what are you supposed to do, suspended in the future and the past at the same time, trying desperately to delay the inevitible, bargaining for a prolonged and bittersweet goodybe? the largest milestones of life rarely happen in a heartbeat but instead fade into a series of quiet, calculated changes that evoke a powerful conclusion of a beginning and an end in the same breath.
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if i could explain love in one word, it would have to be trust.
trust that he doesn't cheat on you.
trust that he doesn't lie to you.
trust that he really likes you.
trust that he'll always be there for you.
trust that he can go to a party and not get drunk or high.
trust that you don't have to worry about him breaking up with you the second you awake.
trust that he'll stick up for you.
trust that he won't fall in love with another girl.
trust that he won't get sick of you,
and trust that he wants you like you want him.
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everyone runs from what they do not understand.
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whenever i'm older and my little girl asks me who my first love was, i don't want to pull out the old photo album. i want to be able to point at you and say, "he's sitting right over there."
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we just have to accept that people are going to stay in our hearts, even when they don't stay in our lives.
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if you don't understand my silence then you don't deserve my words.
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well, this is what happens when you're pissed about being pissed. you dig yourself so deep you resist just to resist and there's no way to get back experiences that you missed, so start today and risk furiousness for bliss.
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i won't wait for you forever while you run around like JFK. we watched that poor girl waste the best years of her life, and i'll be damned... i will not go out that way.
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truth about girls: fact #23. we have the right to overreact, be emotional, and fight at ANY TIME of the day. if we show you emotions IT MEANS WE CARE.
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i wrote the gospel on giving up. you look pretty sinking...