Ella Ceron

You can’t ignore the ruins of great monuments, and you can’t ignore the fact that whatever the hurt, love existed there, in that body, in that face, in that voice. And it was love for you.

Sometimes, it’s going to feel ridiculous to even try. You have to, though, if only to prove yourself wrong. If only to see what you have in you. But like all things, success often comes slowly at first.

Sweat, in general. In places you didn’t know you could sweat.

Whenever anyone asks you what perfume you’re wearing, you wonder if you can say that deodorant is a scent.

Wait. How is this song 22 years old?!

You realize that what you think you want what you need are two different things.

All of my best photos involve both you and me, because you actually make me laugh while we’re taking it.

Another young woman was raped in this country, and she spoke out about it, and for once, the authorities did something. So maybe, finally, after years of victim shaming and the taboo on such a fraught topic, we are finally getting somewhere.

I’m not saying you should willingly run yourself into the ground, but if you can manage to figure out the phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes plan in case you ever need it, well, you’re better off than a lot of people with no exit strategy at all.

Don’t be afraid to tell people that you love them.

Maybe we’re only ever just hoping for a little more hope, a little more reason to keep going, another little sign that they might care, that all of this effort and love and affection was not in vain.

You can seek out running clubs and groups and friends to help motivate you, but at the end of the day, no one else but you can push yourself that much harder to get that much better.

Hi, I love you: I’m bored, talk to me.

Deep down, you know they are the only person who can temper the raging beast that is You: Before Coffee Edition!™.

To jump off cliffs into the ocean water below, to pose for the leaping photos in fields, to cartwheel in the park – even (and maybe even especially) if it’s a bad cartwheel — to skip down the sidewalk if she wants to, no matter who is looking.

I want a summertime love — an ice cream love, a love with and roller coasters and filling our weekends and half-days with the kind of adventures that kids on summer vacation might undertake, even though we’re long past vacation and aren’t given that sort of break anymore.

A relationship is a two-way street, and if someone doesn’t like you or isn’t in a space to date, chances are good that it honestly has little to do with you, and more to do with where they are in their life, too.

This rage is not new. This rage is not unique. Rodger’s actions were extreme, but he was closer to the norm than any of us would like to admit.