Amy Horton

Everything that I do reminds me of you in some way or another. I cannot even touch myself anymore without crumbling at the knowledge that I’ll never feel the tender electricity of your embrace again. 

Fuck you for letting me go and fuck me for letting myself fall for you. 

You must focus on your own needs, make yourself the priority, and spend your time wisely. Don’t waste it hating yourself. 

If you’d died, you wouldn’t have actively chosen to leave me.

No one else has any damn say in how you process your sadness in order to survive and come out on the other side without losing your spirit. 

Sometimes it’s as if I’m sinking into a chasm of loneliness that I’ve dug on my own like all I’ve done in my life is fall into one misstep after another. 

Try your best not to use that time clinging on to people or situations that, despite your deepest genuine efforts, must develop in a different direction than you hoped. Strive to find the peace that comes with releasing expectations.

Remember that no matter how painful everything feels in this moment, it will get better.

I have an idea: If anyone has a problem with my feminism, stay away from it.

I am so incredibly tired of being told that I deserve the world, but that the particular person I’m with just isn’t willing to be the one who gives it to me. 

I am so tired of women being told that we are unreasonable for wanting a good relationship. Standards have slipped so far that we grasp gratefully at the smallest of courtesies from a partner, and yet we are ridiculed as presumptuous…

There’s nothing redeeming about dating a person who does not give anything back to the relationship.

Life isn’t always kind. Try to remember that everyone else has a past as well, and the right person will not judge you for yours.

I may not feel love when I’m alone, but at least I don’t cry.

It was you all along. You were always enough. The world tricked you into believing otherwise.

Sometimes you just don’t feel up to interacting socially. 

You have to trust in the healing process and know that one day, without you realizing, the heaviness will finally be gone.

If we took the embarrassment out of the conversation so that everyone who struggles with HPV or any other STI could feel okay about it, the world would be a happier place.