You were the first nice guy I met after so many bad ones. And I didn’t know if you were the one or just the first good one, so I went out and met some more guys. Some of them were fine, but none of them were you.
Write it on your heart that each day is the best day of the year.
‘What caused you this pain in your heart?’, she asked. “My eyes. I had them closed for so long and when I finally opened them, I wasn’t ready for what they saw.”, he replied.
I want to be free of you… the way you, obviously, are free of me.
The hardest mile I’ve ever walked was the one away from you.
Sometimes you have to forgive people, just because you want them back in your life.
It’s when you hold eye contact for that second too long or maybe the way you laugh. It sets off a flash and our memories take a picture of who we are at that point when we first know “This is love.”
And we clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren’t pictures. And you can either take a new picture or throw the old one away.
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via quotewhore)
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I felt the goodbye when we hugged. The strength in his arms as if that was the last bit of him he had to give me. I realized as I was walking away that in holding on as tight as he did — was really just him letting go.