Holly Riordan

When someone tells her that she looks pretty, she shakes her head. Laughs. Changes the conversation.

Virgo: Comfort. You want someone that you can be yourself around. Someone that makes you feel attractive, even when you’re wearing sweatpants and pimple cream.

She’s a cynic. A skeptic. But she wasn’t always that way. She used to be a romantic. She used to daydream about finding her forever person and kissing him at the end of the aisle.

She knows how smart she is. She knows how talented she is. She has high standards in every area of her life.

I’m not a good conversationalist — and it makes me seem like a shitty friend.

She wants to use you as her pillow. Rest her head on your chest. Drape her legs across your torso. Interlock her fingers with yours.

She loves waking up to your texts, but she would rather wake up to your kisses.

She’s supposed to be the backbone of her friend group — the girl that cheers her friends up after breakups and reminds them that they don’t need a boyfriend to be happy.

You’ll feel the ugliest around boys that aren’t interested. Boys that send mixed signals. Boys that act like they couldn’t care less whether you stay in their life or left.

She’s strong, because she hasn’t let death turn her into a cynic. She still has a huge heart. She still has a lot of love to give.

She’s always thinking. Always observing. Quiet girls have the loudest minds. The widest hearts.

Vulnerability means you fall easily. You see the best in people. You love them over the little things — the way their smile tilts and the intensity of their stare. You get attached easily, because you give yourself the freedom to feel.

“Everything I could see suddenly changed to all black and blue. It lasted what could only have been a fraction of a second, but when things flashed back to normal everything looked like it had moved forward a few seconds in time while I stayed behind. People were way to far from their original spots, cars were suddenly gone…”

Sagittarius: You would find someone sketchy on Tinder or late night at the bar and go back to their place against your better judgement. And then your head would end up in their freezer.

She gets stuck in almost relationships, because she has a huge heart. Because she has high hopes. Because she sees the best in people that see the worst in her.

She swept the knife across her skin, like she’d done it hundreds of times before. Like she was used to seeing blood.

When you’re finally over him and he tries to sneak back into your life. Don’t let him keep playing unfair games with you. You deserve to move on. You deserve to find happiness away from him.

You ease my anxiety.