and i was a fool for ever thinking i could change someone who's affections were so fleeting.

"Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name"

my mother is very wise and i am very not.

"i never knew the heart could take such a beating and still beat so much"

it’s a strange feeling to have my heart occupy so many places at once. Perhaps it is not so much in many places, but stretched between them. When I was little, I had the naïve notion that there was only enough heart in my chest for one person. But as I have loved over the years, to varying degrees and intensities, I have learned that this is not ( Read more... )

disappointment is the worst.

And the men that I've known, they don't know what I meant, and cupid's arrow is backwards and bent when it's flying for me.

there's a box full of mix tapes with titles you came up with. they can show us where we came from but not how to get back there.listening to the songs can't heal my fingers. it's just weight for the anchor to keep your ship here.

"Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but i can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were togeher, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way ( Read more... )

the seasons are always changing and my love's always rearranging and my heart has just been hanging and waiting. and our lives aren't burning and our world isn't turning, and i don't know about love, but i'm learning.