Forever, Interrupted

No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.

in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime

It has never been so clear to me that I am not alone in this. People die every day and other people move on. If everyone that loved all of these people has picked themselves up and moved on, I can do it too

That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,”

I just wanted you to know that even at almost ninety, I’m still learning new things every day, and I think I am learning now that when you lose the thing you love most in the world, things can’t be okay again.

Drunk words are sober thoughts,

I contemplate his words, remaining convinced that living any part of the years I have before me would be a betrayal to the years behind me.

Jealousy was so ugly. It made me feel so ugly.

I wanted to believe that Ben was mine. I wanted to believe that no one had made him smile until I did, no woman had made him yearn to touch her until I had.

Being liked, yeah. And liking someone so much. Being liked by the person you like so much, is maybe more accurate.”