Ella Ceron

Your middle school crush is not your high school sweetheart is not your college fling is not your first live-in lover is not your rebound is not your long-term is not your long distance is not your forever. Each one serves their purpose.

To live, we have to try to connect with those souls we see, the ones in our friends and family and acquaintances and even in strangers. Especially the lost ones.

The expectation for an older sibling to settle down is always at a premium.

Maybe there’s no brakes, maybe there’s no way to take things any way other than how we take them.

After all, shoes changed Dorothy and Cinderella’s lives. You should have a pair that does the same for you.

You are somebody’s future someone, it’s just a matter of whether or not you’ve met them yet, and they won’t love you any less if you don’t pause your life so you can wait around for them to appear.

One cultural standard of beauty isn’t all there is to being a woman, and to get hung up on appearance is to miss all of the potential that lies within just being a person, for starters, whatever your outer wrappings.

No one will ever love you like your parents will, but the kind of love that comes close is not the one that wrecks your world when you’re 13.

Because the endless ways in which I could say I loved you just don’t seem to suffice, and I have to rely on the cliché.

If they tell you you’re wrong about something, your anger subsides a lot faster in the effort to work something out.

Get used to sweaty, salty hugs. There will be a lot of them.

Dating someone in a different borough seems easy enough at first, but soon enough, you’ll come to think of it as something akin to a long-distance relationship.