Nyrae Dawn

Love should be love. Want should be want. You can love someone with all your heart. They can be your heart, but you have to be able to stand on your own and I couldn't.

It's like she has her heart in her hand and it's broken. She's holding it out and showing me all the little pieces. Or maybe it's my heart.

If you have to use the words, __eep down_ all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.

I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.

You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, fuck, I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you.

it__ hard giving out love to people who shove it back in your face. That__ not what love__ supposed to be about. No, it__ not perfect and people get hurt, but it__ a give and take. And it should be comfort, not pain.

No. I didn't say you could talk yet.You made me feel like crap. I didn't fit into your little definition of perfect and you never let me forget it. I can assure you there is nothing. Nothing that would ever make you worth the air you breathe.

What is it about stars that you love so much?_ he asks.That answer comes quickly. __ecause they__e infinite. They__e miracles, and anything is possible when you look out into the massive space that goes on and on._ Because I want that. I want to explore and see what__ out there and feel as free as those stars in the sky.

The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we__e both looked at each of them together.

It__ funny how life moves in a complete circle sometimes. There might be lots of bumps in the road and maybe even a few cliffs, but it__ a journey, and sometimes it can bring you to the most wonderful places.

It__ so strange how one choice can derail so many lives. It was so huge to me, I expected her answer to change everything, but it didn__. I guess that__ life, right? You never really know what__ waiting for you. You never really know what__ going to happen or why. You just have to be able to deal with it. Big or small.

A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can__ even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.

It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.

Don't be afraid to live. And hold onto the people you love.