Aletheia

“I am trying to sleep on the front porch of forgiveness. I am too young to be this lonely. Still, do not mistake all of my honest open for empty. I didn’t leave the door of my love unlocked so you could mistake my sadness for a shelf. I do not have room to carry anyone’s chaos but my own. If I sink, it will be in my own ocean. If I float, it will be on the ship I built with my own hands.”
― Blythe Baird

“The anger wasn't toward you. It was toward me because I can’t accept the fact that I gave you enough reason to seek for someone else.”
― forgottenglimmer

“The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts.
But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories

“That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.”
― David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories