9 Sentences That Define Exactly What It Means To Be An Older Sibling
You are incredibly brave.
You are incredibly brave.
Though I want you to fall for me, I don’t want you to fall away from yourself.
I know how to love people, even when they’re unlovable.
I always believed that friendship is resilient. That in the changes, we would still find comfort on one another’s shoulders.
I want to be the chorus that carries you through the day.
What if we believed, even for a second, in the power of the universe, in the importance of following our hearts?
You are wonderfully made. Your body, your brain, your being—constructed in a way that’s beautiful, that’s breathtaking, that’s uniquely you.
Too long I have thought love waits
at doorsteps, at bus stations, at answering machines
with no messages, phones that don’t ring.
I try to make things look beautiful rather than authentic and flawed because I don’t yet realize that I’m sitting a little too close. That my nose is pressed against the canvas, searching for imperfections, when really I could take a step back and see that my painting is beautiful. Just the way it is.
Call me crazy, but I truly believe there are people that want the same things as me—relationships that matter, intellectual conversations, dates and laughter, nights spent doing things together rather than just doing it.