Mariya Hoque

I broke the first rule. I couldn’t help smiling to myself whenever I was on my way to see you. Everyone on the train must have thought I had lost my mind. But I didn’t care.

There’s a reason you give your heart to the wrong people. Your heart needs to break. It needs to have cracks and holes to let in the right love that would have otherwise been unable to make it through if your heart was completely sealed.

All the love I had for you, I took back, so I can give it instead to the one person who deserves it the most; me.

I didn’t expect it, but when I fell in love with you, I also fell in love with myself.

How you feel about sex, has got nothing to do with how others think you should feel about it.

It wasn’t until I looked back at the red flags that were there at the time that I forced myself to overlook, I realized how badly I needed to grow up.

I did not belong to you. I was never yours to have.