Lauren Strillacci

It would be you and me forever.

I feel things that I know will come and go. And all it means is that next time, I’m going to have to reach even higher to get the same satisfaction.

Love is hard.

Every year, the earth repaints itself a beautiful backdrop of yellows, oranges, and reds. The same way you brushed my soul with the warm feelings of comfort and embrace.

You should love a Leo if you want to know exactly where you stand in your relationship.

You are more intimate with others.

He’s here for reasons that are nothing like yours. He’s here to build a life together, not to rent space in my life like you did.

I realize now that I was asking a lot of you. I wasn’t asking a lot in general, but for you, it was a lot.

When a student then sees their teachers leaving their school at the end of the year, they are confused and hurt. They feel like that are losing a part of the sometimes very minimal support system they have.

You fell and you hurt but you’re ready for something new. You took the appropriate time you needed to heal. You listened when everyone said you were ready to get back out there. So you did. And now you’re falling in love again. But you just can’t help but feel like you’re doing something wrong.

Should I write about how you inspire me to do better and be more than I have ever been? Should I write about how afraid I am to lose you?

Just because you never hit me does not mean that what you did was benign and wholesome. The hurt you caused was more than skin deep.

I don’t do casual, I don’t do part-time.

Something is missing, and that something is me.

True love is when two people’s broken hearts, with all the jagged pieces and sharp edges, happen to fit together.

Because no one else will truly know when you are ready. Only your own heart will let you know.

I purged myself of all my passions, the things that had once made me feel so alive. I was just hoping you could fill the voids I was creating.

I never had to teach myself to forgive you, but it took months to forgive myself.