Holly Riordan

The rules become fuzzy. You don’t know when it’s appropriate to pick up your phone and send them a text and when you should choose silence.

Falling out of love is wondering if you are just going through a rough patch and should hang onto the relationship, or if you should give up and start packing your things.

She is a romantic, but she is also a skeptic. She loves herself, but she also hates herself.

Text your parents. Bolt the doors. Draw the curtains. Lock Sammy in his crate. 

Gemini: You are going to regret making choices that other people pushed you to make instead of choosing what would make you the happiest.

Date a girl who never holds back from saying what she wants, because she doesn’t give a shit about what you might think of her.

You lose the chance to spend a lifetime with someone who would stay loyal, who would never hurt your heart. 

When you have a strong mother, you respect yourself. You don’t let anyone talk down to you. You don’t let anyone walk over you.

“You’re the reason why I believe in love.”

If she has feelings for you, she is going to put in effort with you. She is going to make time for you.

When you send mixed signals, something important is being left unsaid.

If you were still alive, I wouldn’t be as skeptical, as pessimistic. I wouldn’t push people away as soon as they got close out of fear of being abandoned.

When you finally meet someone who makes you feel alive, the skeptic inside of you takes a vacation. You start to believe in love again. You start to have hope again. 

You think too little of yourself. You tell yourself that there is no point in pursuing him. That he would never want to be with you anyway.

When she loves, she loves with all of her heart. And that love lasts a lifetime.

Don’t make her feel like you’re falling for her when you’re only going to break her heart.

I can’t bring myself to delete them. It would be like admitting defeat. It would be like officially letting you go — and I’m not ready to do that yet.

“Overhearing my dad and his friend planning out the murder of my mother, sister and me.”