I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.

Megan Hart

Categorized in : Past Men Normal

It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.

struggle dresses world

We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?

pieces broken fall

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

roller-coaster scared giving

They were all you, to me. All of them were you. by Megan Hart

They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

sixteen smart lucky

There is so much freedom in not having to choose. by Megan Hart

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

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Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

pascal stupid heart

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was... by Megan Hart

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

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And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

not-afraid forever littles

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say i... by Megan Hart

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

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