Holly Riordan

You don’t need anyone else to make your life feel like it’s worth living, because you are strong enough to make it on your own — and you are smart enough to know that there is nothing wrong with being single.

Stay single until you are ready to commit. Until you are ready to hand your heart over to one girl. One girl who makes you feel at peace. One girl who makes you feel like you are important. One girl who makes you think of home as a person instead of a place.

In 2018, I am going to find happiness without you, without any man.

Maybe I am bitter. Maybe I am too immature to take the high road. Or maybe I’m too smart to put up with your bullshit for any longer.

Gemini: They enjoy seeing their family and spending quality time together and blah blah blah, but they hate emptying out their bank account in the process.

Wanting attention does not make you difficult to love. Needing quality time together does not make you difficult to love. Expecting someone to treat you as a priority instead of a backup plan does not make you difficult to love.

Gemini: You have to stop settling for almost relationships and calling it love. It’s not love when they won’t answer your texts. It’s not love when they keep canceling plans. In 2018, date someone who is as invested in the relationship as you are.

I prefer my personal space, I don’t like to be touched, so little acts of intimacy mean a lot to me.

Date someone you enjoy spending your time with, someone you count down the days until you see, someone you daydream about while you’re stuck in class because you would rather be with them. 

I am not going to lower my standards to make room for you in my life. 

A mirror hung above my bed. In the same place I swore a painting had sat only a few hours earlier. A watercolor of a gangly women draped in black. Like a female Slender Man hunched over with her thick dark hair reaching her ankles.

I don’t know why I try so hard to convince myself there is a chance. A chance that you will text me quickly this time. A chance that you will give me a sign that you care. A chance that you will come around. A chance that you will eventually want me, too. 

One day, the obsession that everyone currently has with caring less and revealing nothing and acting like they don’t have a heart at all is going to be replaced with transparency and honesty and authenticity.

I am not the same girl who used to keep quiet, who used to go with the flow, who used to let people take advantage of her kindness.

You will bend over backwards to make others happy, but you won’t put in the same effort to make yourself happy.

You are allowed to wish that you had someone sending you good morning texts. You are allowed to wish that you had someone to kiss goodnight.

When you love someone, you don’t delete messages daily (or strictly talk over snapchat) so your person can never find anything.

I want someone who will admit when he doesn’t really have anything to say, but wanted to talk to me anyway.