detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

I am here because of love.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.