“ I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me. ”
I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew-that was terrifying.
~ Whitney Barbetti
Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn’t want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically.
I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.
Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.