When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

When you can't be honest with people, you can't ever relax with them.