A HOME FOR THE HEART
ASSORTED QUOTES PULLED FROM TUMBLR POSTS, PINTEREST POSTS, AND SONGS.
CHANGE gendered words and in-universe phrases as needed.
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“ Half of seeming clever is learning when to keep your mouth shut. ”
“ I don’t understand … what exactly are you doing? ”
“ Fun isn’t something I’m particularly familiar with. ”
“ I will be gentle with your heart — I promise. ”
“ You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known. ”
“ If we beat ourselves up after a mistake, we add shame onto the guilt and frustration that we already feel about our mistake. ”
“ Your pain is safe with me and I will stay with you longer than your sorrows if you let me. ”
“ I am broken, and full of contradictions. ”
“ We cannot afford avoiding the fight for growth and understanding, even when that fight is as painful as it’s bound to be. ”
“ At the moment, I am quite busy tearing down who I once was. ”
“ You have to challenge yourself, and keep learning new things. ”
“ I implore you — it’s time to come back from the dark. ”
“ You’re dangerous, but you lack ambition. ”
“ I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. I even fooled myself. ”
“ You will miss so much by being guarded. ”
“ What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. ”
“ I know what it feels like to lose someone you love. ”
“ By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully and deliberately and well. ”
“ We can't do whatever we want. There are ways we have to act. There are things we have to say. But we can think whatever we want. ”
“ I think I love nearly everyone I have ever met. ”
“ It is the destiny of stars to collapse. ”
“ I belong to you. ”
“ What I was before wasn’t good for me. ”
“ Leave me to my own absurdity. ”
“ I have such trust in you, my heart. My dear, dear heart. ”
“ I’m restless and harsh and despairing. ”
“ You can be better than this. ”
“ I am not arrogant; I simply know my place. It’s quite far above yours. ”
“ Should I regret what I became, or should I regret what I didn’t become? ”
“ You are too nostalgic; you want memory to secure you, console you. ”
“ I am afraid to experience what I don’t understand — I always want the guarantee of at least thinking that I understand. ”
“ My heart is too good to be silent. ”
“ The quiet of the night is astonishingly beautiful. ”
“ When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. ”
“ I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then. ”
“ It’s frightening that there’s no guarantee you’ll be loved. ”
“ I think too deeply about everything. I still don’t know if that allows me to see more of the world, or less of it. ”
“ The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. ”
“ See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event―it's a process. ”
“ You must walk alone to find your soul. ”
“ I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. ”
“ People can easily forget that others are human. ”
“ By one act, I have ruined everything. ”
“ My bloodline is irrelevant to my value. ”
“ Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something that they need to forgive. ”
“ Who are you to judge me? ”
“ Poets — they can be soldiers, too. ”
“ I’m afraid to let go. ”
“ People can’t feel truly loved if they don’t feel seen for who they truly are. ”
“ Grief always grows back. ”
“ Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. ”
“ What thing worthy of love can be found in me? ”
“ I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal for someone to just go blank? ”
“ This was always going to happen. ”
“ I found with you a life force that I thought I’d lost. ”
“ I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly. ”
“ We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. ”
“ If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul, you haven’t experienced poetry. ”
“ My life has changed, and I’m changing with it. ”
“ Things are sweeter when they’re lost. ”
“ How foolish we are to believe that we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. ”
“ Grief is really just love. It’s all the love that you want to give, but cannot. ”
“ They think that I’m purely decorative, and they’re fools for not knowing better. ”
“ Isolation is a way to know ourselves. ”
“ How many people am I? Who am I? ”
“ I learned a lot about being a friend when I was alone. ”
“ Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. ”
“ I love you, but I cannot survive you. ”
“ Shame keeps us stuck. It’s a paralyzing emotion. ”
“ I am, at present, wrestling with my own private angels. ”
“ You’re looking for this wonderful thing that you may never get. ”
“ If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life. ”
“ Come on; dance with me. ”
“ If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant. ”
“ You don't always need to be getting stuff done. Sometimes it's perfectly okay, and absolutely necessary, to shut down and do nothing. ”
“ What would you ask for, if you knew that the answer would be yes? ”
“ Love is also a violence, and it cannot be undone. ”
“ Some things are more precious because they don’t last long. ”
“ You are afraid to die, and you are afraid to live. ”
“ I do understand — and it is terrible. ”
“ How do you become so empty? Who takes everything out of you? ”
“ I can’t abandon the person that I used to be. ”
“ Strength is what I want. Strength not to endure, I have that and it has made me weak — but strength to act. ”
“ I want everything back the way it was. But there is no point, this wanting. ”
“ My guilt will not purify me. ”
“ I guess I thought that by now, I’d be done with shame. ”
“ My father and I are more alike than I’d care to admit. ”
“ I am not asking. I’m begging — please. ”
“ It was a long time ago. It doesn’t matter anymore. ”
“ You people do not understand me, and I am afraid that you never will. ”
“ Endure what you deserve. ”
“ I pity the dark life that you live. ”
“ Don’t be the sort of person who needs to be held. ”
“ I am beginning to despair and can only see two choices: go mad, or go holy. ”
“ We are enemies linked together. ”
“ What lived and died between us haunts me still. ”
“ Betrayal already points to love. You can’t betray an acquaintance. ”
“ The dead only return for love or for revenge. Which did you come back for? ”
“ Every version of the story ends with you being slaughtered. ”
“ How can I ask anyone to love me, when all I can do is beg to be left alone? ”
“ If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier. ”
“ We are nothing more or less than what we choose to reveal. ”
“ How dangerous to finally have something worth losing. ”
“ Peace was never an option. ”
“ I will not water myself down to make my suffering more digestible for you! ”
“ Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. ”
“ Beyond a certain point, there is no return. ”
“ Anger is hard to ignore. ”
“ It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ”
“ Broken girls blossom into warriors. ”
“ I don’t know if I believe in rage as something always acting in opposition to tenderness. I believe, more often, in the two as braided together. ”
“ But it was too much. All of it was too much. ”
“ Time just gets away from us. ”
“ I’d rather live with a tender heart, because that is the key to feeling the beat of all the other hearts. ”
“ I’m afraid he’s going to hurt me. ”
“ The core of me is untouched. ”
“ I must have been very hard for him to love. ”
“ I understand now that I'm not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. ”
“ Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became. ”
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more texts for you bitches
ANGSTY TEXTS, BITCH
[text] You should have told me you wanted me out of your life.
[text] I should have never let you back into my life.
[text] Okay [muse’s name] what’s the deal, pretty sure this is you…listen if you want me to leave you alone, please just tell that.
[text] Please don’t walk away.
[text] Please don’t do this.
[text] When are you going to realize I want nothing to do with you?
[text] You want nothing to do with me, I get it.
[text] I’m an idiot. You fooled me again.
[text] When I think things are about to change … I’m always proven wrong.
[text] I just want you to be happy. And you’ll be happier without me.
[text] I just hate that someone could make me trust [him/her/them] the way that I did
[text] The truth is I’m not over you.
[text] The truth is I never really wanted to be with you.
[text] I’m seeing someone else.
[text] How the hell did you get my number, stalker?
[text] You’re so selfish.
[text] I just saw you leave with [her/him/them].
[text] FUCK YOU AND YOUR DUMB CUTE FACE
LOVING TEXTS, BITCH
[text] Did I tell you today that you’re the most adorable? Cause, yeah.
[text] Be careful.
[text] I’m only saying it because I love you.
[text] I’m only saying it because I care about you.
[text] Okay, I’m bringing coffee.
[text] I’m thinking dinner and a movie later this week?
[text] Let me take you out, please?
[text] Let me make you dinner tonight.
[text] I want you to be happy.
[text] You’re always safe with me.
[text] I can’t stop thinking about you.
[text] I seriously don’t know what I’d do without you.
[text] I know you may not feel like you are, but you are loved. And important. Please don’t forget that.
[text] It was so good seeing you.
[text] You don’t need this shit.
[text] I’ll be there in five minutes.
[text] Let me help, please?
[text] You’re important to me.
[text] Stop falling asleep in the bathtub. You’re going to drown and die and leave me and I’m not having that.
[text] I would gladly watch Netflix and eat Thai with you any day.
[text] I’d give up my phone charger AND the last piece of gum for you. That’s love.
[text] Hey beautiful no judgment but why is there a bucket of KFC chicken in the bathtub??
ANGRY TEXTS, BITCH
[text] If you don’t want me to bust your window, I suggest you answer the phone. Now.
[text] To quote Mean Girls, you’re a fugly slut.
[text] Are you SERIOUSLY bringing that up right now!?
[text] Lose my number, asshole.
[text] You’re so predictable and obnoxious. And it’s not only me who thinks so.
[text] …The least you could do is answer, wtf.
[text] You’re a piece of shit human being and an even worse friend.
[text] This is YOUR FAULT. And you can’t even pretend like it isn’t, because you know it is.
[text] Why couldn’t you just stay out of it?
[text] Holy fucking shit, take a hint, asshole.
[text] Go fuck yourself.
[text] What the fucking hell is wrong with you?
[text] You can take your stuff back as long as I don’t light it on fire first.
[text] I have cramps and a migraine so you do NOT want to mess with me right now
[text] Bye and have a very fuck you day
SEXY TEXTS, BITCH
[text] Just let me suck your dick and be happy. Let me have this.
[text] Why are you so hot…like honestly, it’s not fair.
[text] Yeah, you looked good in your [dress/shirt/pants] last night but really, they looked way better on my floor.
[text] Come over. With condoms.
[text] You should come over, clothing optional.
[text] I feel like a nasty slut and I LOVE IT
[text] Sorry I got drunk and texted you about my sex life
[text] Sex on a rooftop - trashy or adventurous?
[text] If you’re not at my apartment, shirtless, in five minutes, I will be personally offended.
[text] I don’t think he likes that I’m always sending him pictures of me in my bra but he needs to get it together
[text] It’ll be like The Notebook, except with way more of my penis.
[text] I didn’t know that all of his brothers would be hot and musically inclined, too. That’s a dick move on behalf of biology.
[text] I DON’T WANT YOUR DICK. I WANT BRUNCH.
[text] So is it your turn now to pretend like dating someone else would stop us from fucking?
[text] I just need some of your time and all of your body.
[text] I am available for nakedness
[text] I think about [him/her/them] when I masturbate so I guess you could call it love
DRUNK TEXTS, BITCH
[drunk text] So wat are you really over me no w
[drunk text] AND I UNFOLLOWED YOU ON INSTAGRAM TOO, BITCH
[drunk text] You are my queen and my savior and I love you forever
[drunk text] You are the most beautiful girl I have ever known
[drunk text] I’m eating macaroni and cheese on a slice of pizza and autocorrect just wrote that text for me pretty much, what’s your night like
[drunk text] Listen up slut, you’re one hot piece of ass and if [he/she/they] doesn’t realize it, it’s their loss
[drunk text] but what’s the point of a Disney sing off party if you’re not here. You have to be be the Pumbaa to my Timon
[drunk text] Can you pls remind me tomorrow of how much of a fool I made myself tonight
[drunk text] FUCK YOU YOU’RE GORGEOUS
[drunk text] I think maybe you and me should like go out and eat pizza or something check yes or no
[drunk text] Please don’t hate me I’m too tired and too dizzy to be hated
[drunk text] I hate (him/her) but less when I’m drinking. Thanks, alcohol.
[drunk text] Omf g you need to get over here now I think I’m dyin
[drunk text] SWEEEEEEEET CAROLINE
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