♦   close your eyes   ♦

Reflections

Some things never leave you

The Neighbourhood Reflections
A lone figure against a stormy sky

some people just live in the rain

Always Moving
Never Arriving

The world kept spinning. I stood still and watched it leave me.

— thoughts that stay —

"

I am tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for.

— unknown

"

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

— unknown

"

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important.

— Marilyn Monroe

"

Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you're not as terrible as you think you are.

— unknown

"

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

— unknown

"

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away.

— Henry Rollins

"

The scariest thing is that I missed him. Not him, exactly, but the idea of him, the person I'd imagined him to be.

— Deb Caletti

"

I keep telling myself that I don't miss you, that I don't love you, knowing all the while that I can't even convince myself.

— unknown

"

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

"

People cry not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

— Johnny Depp

— what the rain feels like —

🕯

Grief

It does not come in waves. It is the ocean, and you forgot you could not swim.

🌧

Distance

You were right there. I could feel your warmth. And somehow I was still alone.

🪞

Reflection

I kept looking for the version of myself before all this happened. I don't think she exists anymore.

🌑

Silence

The loudest thing in any room is the conversation you'll never get to have.

Maybe the saddest part isn't that things end.
It's that somewhere inside you, they never do.