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Why I Write on Days I Don’t Feel Like Writing:

“Because it takes practice. Because I can’t help it. Because it teaches me that failure is necessary. Because it makes me feel brave. Because it’s worth waiting for the right metaphor. Because, “metaphor,” really means, “person.” Because I don’t ever want to forget how his kiss crept over my skin in the car that day. Because when we jumped in the river, the water snuck into our hair and made us shiver. Because time can only smell like buttermilk biscuits on paper, and my arms aren’t actually fifteen-years long, and it’s weird to tell people over coffee that the color green feels like home. Because, like most things worthwhile, it’s difficult.

Because some words are too thick for air.”

-Todd Clayton, Thought Catalog

Ticket lines and places to dine, taking baths and drinking wine.

People ask, I say I’m doing fine.

Motorcycles and the Eiffel Tower, they were made for two.

A double bed has never felt so empty. What’s missing in my world is you.

What I have is a good life anyway. What I have will do.

But we’re living in a world of only choices and what I choose is you.

So I leave it in your hands now to come through.

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I find myself either loving or hating the songs on J-Mraz’s new album. This one I love.

Tenth Avenue North

I know the weight of this world can take you down like gravity

I know the current of yourself can take you out, out to sea

But hold on,

hold on.

And He’ll break open the skies

to save those who cry out His name

The one the wind and waves obey

is strong enough to save you.

“After a while you learn the subtle differences

between holding a hand and chaining a soul.

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning

and company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts

and presents aren’t promises.

And you begin to accept your defeats

with your head up and your eyes ahead,

with the grace of a woman,

not the grief of a child.

And you learn to build all your roads on today

because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,

and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns

if you get too much.

So you plant your own garden

and decorate your own soul,

instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure;

You really are strong,

you really do have worth.

And you learn, and you learn…

With every goodbye you learn.”

-Veronica A. Shoffstall

“I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”

-Augusten Burroughs

“They say the key to finding happiness beyond romance and your professional life is to find happiness within yourself. Um, this is a NO DOY concept. But I also think people can be happy with themselves and still get sad when they’re not in a relationship. That doesn’t make them weak and have underlying issues. That just makes them human.”

Ryan O’Connell, Thought Catalog

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

-Anaïs Nin