Holly Riordan

I still refer to your house as your house, even though someone else is living there now. I still celebrate your birthday. I still talk to you, even though my words are aimed at the sky instead of a phone.

He ignores your texts — but likes your selfies.

She expects you to check your phone during your lunch break to let her know that you miss her.

Capricorn: Carrie. You were the kid that never really fit in. The kid that wished they could get revenge on their peers.

He doesn’t deserve a text back if it’s going to hurt you. If answering his message and letting him take hold of your heart again is more painful than deleting his number.

It sucks to stay up until 2 AM, worrying about what’s going to happen the next day. It sucks to check and recheck your bag to make sure that you haven’t forgotten anything important. It sucks to spend all of your time stressing instead of living. But, honestly, your overthinking isn’t all bad.

You were the person that she told all of her friends about, the person that she replayed conversations with inside of her head. She waited for texts with your name on them. She dressed in her favorite outfits on the days she knew she’d be running into you.

They aren’t going to go out of their way to meet new people, but once you become a part of their life, they aren’t going to let you go. They’re going to treat you like family.

He deserves a second chance if he shows you that he’s changed, that he’s ready for a serious relationship with you and is done with the games, done with the back and forth, done with playing the field.

Stay single until you decide that you deserve the best, that you shouldn’t settle for the first option that comes along.

“A guy admitted his friends murdered a homeless man while they were hanging out in pretty graphic detail.”

Life isn’t going to go your way just because you’re a good person. It’s going to be filled with hardships and adversity that you’ll struggle to survive — but you will survive.

“A guy who killed another person in a road rage incident and shot his dog. Strafed bullets across the windshield to scare the guy’s wife then went home and went to bed.”

You thought you were done with first dates and awkward conversations. You thought you had settled down with the person you were going to spend the rest of your days alongside.

Don’t let him back in your life, even though you feel like that song you heard or the fact that you ran into him is a sign that you should talk to him again.

A fuzzy video popped up, poor quality, caught from a street camera. A skinny guy in a red jacket was feeding his credit card to a machine at the gas station when four men surrounded him.

Writer: You’ve penned a story (or had a sick fantasy) about someone you hate dying a gruesome death.

“We all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we’re no good, that if we don’t make this promotion or ace that exam we’ll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are.”