

“I am a woman who talks to herself and lies.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It鈥檚 something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“You will find,鈥 she says, 鈥渢hat there鈥檚 a certain grace to having your heart broken.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“Nothing has changed, Claire. You're still as beautiful as you were when we met first and I am still in love with everything about you. We may be worlds apart but this doesn't keep our hearts at distance. I feel your breath in every breath of mine and I hear your heartbeat in every beat of my heart. I traveled to far away lands, rivers, forests, mountains, glaciers, deserts and skyscrapers but wherever I go I find you there. My dreams aren't illusions but visions of a beautiful yesterday; I play with your hair-locks, I kiss your eyes, I embrace your hands and you giggle in my arms blossoming like a flower. My love, you're my only reality, my only fantasy, my only celebration and my only refuge. I have waited a thousands suns and I can wait a thousand more to witness the moment you call out to me. That day you'll find me and even if I don't live up to see that day I will be with you forever, just remember me.”
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“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.”
― Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
― Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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