- He spoke to me with words and I looked at him with feelings.
- I was on fire and he used me to light his cigarette.
- I didn’t want to be one half of something that didn’t exist.
- He didn’t know something was wrong when I said that I was fine.
- I tried breaking down his walls and broke myself in the process.
- He was my best-selling novel; I was the dream he forgot about in the morning.
- I was where he would go to remember how much people miss him when he’s gone.
- We only kissed in the dark.
- He’s too damaged; I’m too weak.
- I didn’t have patience for the word “maybe.”
- He guarded himself with tsunamis. I protected myself with fire.
- I made a home out of him, but he wouldn’t let me in.
- Waiting as a form of hell.
- The one who cares less controls the relationship and we were both power-hungry.
- I wanted words and I got nothing.
- We were both afraid of being alone but did not embrace each other’s company.
- He was alright letting go of nice things.
- The false hope became my only companion.
- It wasn’t my choice, I swear. I stepped outside for air and he locked the door.
- I asked for a glass of wine and he laced it with arsenic.
- He never had feelings, only ideas.
- We were always two strangers learning how to fall in love with each other again.
- My friends thought I was crazy.
- The less I gave, the more I got back.
- I could forgive him for being afraid. I couldn’t forgive him for being a coward.
- He did nothing as he watched me leave.
- I said nothing as he reduced me down to nothing.
- He was like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching until it got infected.
- I became obsessed with the one who did not love me.
- No one truly loved him and it made him insecure.
- Terrible people awaken all the terrible parts inside of you.
- I panicked.
- He changed his mind.
- Withholding affection as a form of punishment.
- He kissed me a paragraph and I replied with a novel.
- The truth hurt, but our lies were worse.
- Sometimes the things we love will kill us, but weren’t we dying anyway?
- He sent me a text that said “wanna chill?”
- I wanted to be happy more than I wanted him to be mine.
- People are people and we destroy everything we touch, including each other.
- I could turn him into poetry, but I could not make him love me.
- We both wanted our secrets back.
- I was a consolation prize.
- One minute he was a cigarette break, and the next he was a forest fire.
- His smile was beautiful; his heart was a crippled old thing.
- I might’ve been gone, but at least I never walked out.
- He was a mountain I had to climb; I was a poem he didn’t understand.
- Absence was always present.
- He was the most addicting drug of all and forced me to go to rehab.
- His confidence thrived off my envy.
- I was born for leaving.
- He only knew what I wanted him to.
- I loved the person I thought he was.
- I didn’t want him to push me off the same cliff twice.
- I deserved happiness, so I left.
Reasons we failed at love
19 Monday May 2014