Embarassingly Easy
You made it so difficult to love you, but I did. I made it embarrassingly easy to love me but I never got a second glance.
Music Theory
I have this theory that if I listen to your favorite music all the time, eventually we will be listening to the exact same song at the exact same moment, and the universe will place me in your thoughts.
Things I Don’t Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About
- At some point, soon, we are going to have to redefine the word “favorite.”
Tripping Down Memory Lane
This city keeps memories of you at every corner. But the worst part is I keep tripping over them in my own apartment, even though you only stayed over once.
More Times
I sometimes think about you more times in a day than I do about myself. Or about my boyfriend.
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60 Plays
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don’t patronize - don’t patronize me
Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
‘Cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t
I’m tired of breathing
different air than you
I’m tired of peering
upon the same stars
at such a distance
I’m tired of my heart
beating so far away
tucked in your pocket
or wherever you keep it
(via thistimenextyear)
The big risk here, of course, is rejection. We can all handle being disliked now and then, because there’s such an infinitely big pool of potential likers. But to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and to have it rejected, can be catastrophically painful. The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking.
— Jonathan Franzen (via collectingquotes)
(Source: The New York Times, via wrists)
