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Vanessa, Twenty-one. When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so very often contains.

[poems-and-word]

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

[jamabushi]

when the time comes to leave

[love-diaries]

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.” - Ryan O’Connell

[poems-and-word]

“All my life, I’ve found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.”

[simplisticsuggestion]

Sending all my love to anyone who is hurting today.

[traitspourtraits]

[love-diaries]

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.” - Jonathan Safran Foer; Everything Is Illuminated

[typelikeagirl]

[poems-and-word]

[poems-and-word]

[imsoofuckingsad]

do i really have to be alive every day

[poems-and-word]

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

[loviely]

when the fuck will i be ok

[poems-and-word]

“I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

[poems-and-word]

[love-diaries]

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.” - Jack Kerouac; On The Road

[love-diaries]

“Yes, there are times we live for somebody else.” - The Lumineers; Dead Sea