And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.
A thousand suns rise from my chest.
It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
You just work through it. You just hang in there.
Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.