I want you, forever and always. (:

We had a lot going for us. We'd found the secret glue that held all things together. In a perfect place, where the noise did not intrude, our world was so very complete.

You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they are happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day.
- Field Of Dreams

I want to hear someone's life story, a stranger's. And then tell them mine. I want them to know everything about me - those little things I keep to myself to avoid judgment. Terrible, awful things that I lock up in the back of my head. My opinions, the truth, anything and everything I can think of. And I want them to not hate me afterwards.

I don't need some elaborate apology. I don't need you to play me our song in front of all of our friends, or just me. I don't need you to wait outside my class with a dozen roses. I just need you to tell me simply that you're sorry, and that you need me as much as I need you.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books, and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art. Write or draw or build or sing or live only as you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
- Neil Gaiman

So this is it, the feeling that I've missed. A subtle kind of pain that keeps me from sleep. Try to explain how your touch drives me insane, and I can't spend a night without wishing I was with you. I wanna tell you a secret and leave it on your lips. Wanna sing it through your body, wanna tell it through this kiss. If I told you my secret, would you swear to keep it? I'm watching you dance, I'm seeing you smile. Still getting butterflies every once in a while. Feelings insist on falling. A twist on lust, a choice to care, a wish to touch. When you say never, I'll say lie. When you say always, I'll say true. When you say love, I'll say you. I'll say you.

You're afraid to do things or try something new, but in the end, if you don't take those chances, you're going to shut out the best things in life.

I just want to let it go, all my worries and care. I'm only young once so I'll shrug my shoulders and forget about the world.

The reason why a seesaw was made for two people is that when you go down, there would always be someone there to lift you up again.

The sad thing is we're never happy with what we've got. We're silly, selfish and naive always believing that things could be so much better when really, this is the best it'll get. It's no wonder why love never lasts. It's because we're always taking it up that notch and expecting something magnificent. Perfect. Well let me tell you something - there's no such thing as perfection.

Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself. you have to know that you're a good person and a good friend. what's meant to be will end up good and what's not - won't. love is worth fighting for sometimes. you can't be the only one fighting. at times, people need to fight for you. if they don't, you just have to move on and
realize what you gave them was more than they were willing to give you. hopefully, people realize great things when they come around and don't lose something real. always fight, until you can't anymore, and then be fought for.

I delete numbers from my phone like I'm erasing them from my life. I get caught up with drama and I get so frustrated that I want to scream. I listen to sad music when I'm upset, because I know that whoever wrote the song, they were miserable once too. I've changed to please people, and I care too much about what people think of me. I talk too loud and I act like I'm five. I'm smart. I know when to say no, and I know what is best for me. I follow my heart instead of my head, and if you walk out of my life, I'll tell you not to look back. I hold in my tears and hold my head up high, because I have more confidence than you'd think. I don't think I'm too fat or too skinny. I don't think I'm ugly or too perfect, either. I've been lead on by tens of guys, but I'm still strong. I don't let things get the best of me. I'm not afraid to show people the real me, because I'm me, and if you don't like it, walk out. Now.

I really can't explain it, but I like you without trying. I love the things you say, and how you never fail to make me smile. And by the end of the night, you're always on my mind.

You only live once.

Smile. Sure times are hard, and everything seems to be taking a turn for the worse, but you are not the only one with problems. Everyone feels pain, you just have to push it aside and decide to be happy.

Your relationship with GOD is more important than any
thing because you know for sure that's a relationship
that will last forever.

The awkward moment when you come back from something
and someone has stolen your seat.

Only 90's kids will remember the dancing lobsters from the Amanda show.

Deleting one 'ha' from your 'hahahaha' because you think it's a bit too much.

I hate it when I'm wearing socks and I step in something wet.

Good friends assume you're okay when you're smiling. Best
friends see the hurt in your eyes and always seem to make
you feel better.

The awkward moment when you pronounce a word wrong
confidently out loud to your class.

I'm the type of person that wants good grades but doesn't want to study.

Looking at your phone to see what time it is, and
putting it away. Then realizing that you didn't look
at the time.

I could win American Idol if they just let me bring my shower on stage.

A regular boyfriend locks his phone but a real boyfriend
asks you to answer it or check the text.

Don't create conversations in your head, because they don't
usually go as planned and you're left with disappointment.

In the past, when you were angry with someone you fought
them. Now you just delete them off Facebook. That'll teach
'em to mess with you.

Most girls say they want a "good guy," but when they
meet him they keep him in the friend zone, chase after
jerks, and end up heartbroken.

A bad relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.

I felt special until I saw you talk to everyone like that.

That awkward moment when nobody likes your Facebook status.

If he's only affectionate to you in private,
then feel free to let him go in public.

Gee, thanks pad. For making that really loud rippy noise
when I open you and letting everyone in the bathroom
know I have my period. (HA!)

Don't call a girl "a flirt" when she's just being nice.
Don't call a girl "obsessed" when she's just in love.

Pulling up your blanket and accidentally
punching yourself in the face.

"Lol" is not a message worth replying to.

Why is it that I have to recite the entire alphabet
to remember where one letter is?

The mini heart attack you have when your foot slides down a stair!

I miss a lot of people. And the sad part is,
I can't do anything about it.

I'm tired of fighting, I want to be fought for.
I'm tired of caring, I want to be cared for.
I'm tired of being just me, I wanna be yours.

I love it when I hear lyrics that totally apply to my current situation.

I wish I could google the things I've misplaced.

Have you ever ran into a spider web and
suddenly turned into a ninja?

Some people are like trees, they take forever to grow up.

Writing "etc" on a test because you don't remember any more examples.

If only you can delete feelings like how you delete text messages.

Food: hours to make and a minute to eat.

When a guy stares at you in class, it's adorable. When
a girl stares at you in class, it's like, what the heck
are you looking at?

It sucks not talking to you everyday.
I hope you know I miss you. I miss you so much.

We all blame society. But truth is, we are society.

When faced with relationship problems, look for a way, not a way out.

If only your closed mind came with a closed mouth.

Let her crash and burn; she'll learn.

Too many girls want attention, not enough want respect.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

Sometimes all a person really needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

Have you never noticed that it's not him who makes her strong? It's her friends who make her strong when he makes her weak.

The tragedy of life is not how long it is, but how long we take to begin it.

Walk the hall like it's a runway, live your life like it's a stage. Take chances like you know the outcome, act like you know what you're doing. Love like you can't get hurt, laugh like you've never heard of tears. Scream like you can't lose your voice, and talk like you'll never stop laughing.

If you look confident, you can pull off anything, even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

A strong woman is one who is able to smile in the morning like she wasn't crying last night.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as
if nothing is a miracle, the other as if everything
is a miracle.

Yelling "YOU'RE WELCOME!" when someone doesn't say thank you.

If a man whistles to you, don't respond. You're a lady, not a dog.

My alarm clock is just jealous of the relationship I have with my bed.

Your worth is not measured in likes, comments, or followers.

Everybody smiles in the same language. :)

If you're too busy to laugh, you're too busy.

Sometimes, "I'm Single" means "I'm drama-free, less stressed, and I refuse to settle for less."

Note to self: Stop expecting.

Because every breath I take proves that I can live without you.

Have faith and stay hopeful, it gets better.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray.
It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

You should appreciate what you have, before it becomes what you had.

It's not the goodbye that hurts,
but the flashbacks that follow.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

If not now, when?
If not us, who?

If karma doesn't knock you out soon, I will.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

It's the scars that can't be seen that take the longest to heal.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
- Hebrews 11:1 KJV

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
- Song of Solomon 6:3a KJV

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 KJV

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13 KJV

And of some have compassion making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- Jude 22-23

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perch, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.
- John 3:16-18

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be bond, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV

God created marriage to be for life. The sad part about it is, when most people promise for better or for worse, they really only mean for the better.

Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1 John 4:8 KJV

God's been good, in my life. I feel blessed beyond my wildest dreams when I go to sleep each night. And though I've had my share of hard times I wouldn't trade them if I could, cause through it all, God's been good.

I have been blessed, God's so good to me, precious are His thoughts of you and me. There's no way I could count them, there's not enough time. So I'll just thank Him for being so kind, God has been good, so good. I have been blessed.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.
- Philippians 1:3

We were made to be courageous, and we're taking back this fight, we were made to be courageous and it starts with us tonight. The only way we'll ever stand is on our knees with lifted hands, make us courageous.

I guess, if anything, it's about taking chances, even when you think you're all out of chances. It's about giving forgiveness and unconditional love, even when it seems like you should only do the opposite. It's about trusting that God puts people in your life at certain moments so that you can capitalize the opportunity. It's all about the possibility. It's all about what you do with those possibilities. Life is short, but it moves so fast. Hang on and enjoy the ride. And when someone comes along with whom you enjoy spending the ride with, hold on tight.

Time is ticking away. Yes you're young, but the years fly by and soon you'll be wondering what would have happened if you would have spoken what was inside your heart.

You ever wonder how long it takes to change your life? What measure of time is enough to be life-altering? Is it four years, like high school? One year? An eight-week rock tour? Can your life change in a month, a week, or a single day? We're always in a hurry to grow up, to go places, to get ahead. But when you're young, one hour can change everything.

Sometimes the things you want the most don't happen and what you least expect happens. I don't know - you meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet that one person and your life is changed.

To get up in the morning only to know that you have to face another obstacle takes strength. To smile when the only thing you can do is cry takes bravery. To act happy and laugh when you know that times are at their worst takes courage. To be joyous when the only good news is the best of the bad news takes support. To be there and help others through the roughest times in life takes love.

Every woman needs her man, to hold her and protect her and tell her that she's beautiful, and how she feels, he understands. A man that will not leave her but will stand right by her side. So before you go, just know that every woman needs her man.

Just say what you mean and mean what you say. Don't expect someone to read your mind, and don't play games with heads or hearts. Don't tell half truths and expect trust when the full truth comes out. Half truths are no better than lies. Don't be cold to someone you care about, cause indifference hurts more than angry words.

Even though you turned out to be a jerk, you were the only person to act like you really gave a crap about me. You knew me inside and out and you loved all of me. Or at least I thought you did.. And maybe that's why it's so hard to completely get over you. It all turned out to be a lie, but that just makes it harder to let go. I just need that guy back that sent me good morning beautiful texts. I miss the guy who wouldn't let me get away with saying "I'm fine," because he knew me enough to know I'm not. The guy who could put a smile on my face by just answering the phone. The guy who would stay on the phone with me all night, even after we fell asleep. That guy who would wake up early just to hear the sound of my voice while I was getting ready for school. The guy that I trusted with everything and anything. The only guy I ever completely let in. The guy who would manage to have at least one "no, you're cuter" or "I love you more" fight a day. The guy who wanted to spend as much time with me as he possibly could. The guy who would always remind me how much he cared about me after every fight we had. The guy who would tell me he's not worth my tears when he would make me cry. The guy who drove me crazy, but I wouldn't want it any other way. The guy who had me convinced I'd spend forever with him. The guy who meant the world to me until one day he just left.

Just because somebody flirts with you, doesn't mean they like you. Just because somebody likes you, doesn't mean they want to go out with you. Just because somebody goes out with you, doesn't mean they love you. Just because somebody loves you, doesn't mean they won't hurt you. Because people lie and things change. Boyfriends cheat, best friends leave, and there will always be those people that would kill to see you fall.

There it goes again. That heavy feeling in your chest when you don't feel any desire to speak or move. All you want to do is close your eyes and sleep, because the process of being broken is incredibly exhausting. You attempt your best to make your days fulfilling, but no matter how hard you try you can't seem to connect to anyone or anything.

I will never understand why I ended up this way or what the reason was for. I'll never understand why this world is so messed up and barely anyone cares. I'll never understand a lot of things, like why people lie, cheat, and steal. Why they are rude, mean, horrible, and inconsiderate. I'll never understand how pain never goes away. I'll never understand love or hate. I'll never understand life.

A boy gave a challenge to his girlfriend to live a day without him. No communications at all and he said that if she passed it, he'll love her forever. The girl agreed. She didn't text or call him the whole day, without knowing that her boyfriend had only 24 hours to live because he's suffering from cancer. She excitedly went to her boyfriend's house the next day. Tears fell as she saw her boyfriend lying on the coffin with a note on the side saying, "You did it, baby. No, can you please do it everyday? I love you."

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing: light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

It's not supposed to be perfect, and no one is supposed to understand it. It's meant to be chaotic, and it's meant to make you cringe. It you haven't cried in a while, or felt like crap in even longer, than you're most likely doing something wrong. This isn't here for constant perfection, or some cliche happy ending. It's here to be real, and to keep your heart beating, and to keep you wanting more. There is supposed to be a bright light of hope in your heart, and a black hole of the unknown in your mind. None of this makes sense, but all of it is worth it.

At this age, everything is changing. Day by day we don't notice, but just look back over the past year and you will realize everything has. People you thought that were going to be there forever aren't, and people you never imagined you'd be speaking to are now some of your closest friends. Life makes little sense, and the more we grow the less sense it will make .So make the most of now, before it all changes once again, because in the near future, all of this is only going to be memories.

I can't explain this feeling for you, but I guess I can try. It's like I've waited for this one thing my whole life, and it's suddenly right in front of me. I know you sometimes doubt how you feel for me, and sometimes I doubt how I feel for you, but then there are times, stupid times, like when we're posing for a picture, or I'm...sitting in your car, or when we're walking together and we brush against each other, and I know without a question that you're feeling the same way I am. And those moments, however few or far between, make everything we go through worth it. What can I say? Somewhere in these past few months, I've fallen in love.

To all of you who are having any sense of self-doubt:
You are beautiful, each and every one of you. don't let anybody get you down. you deserve to be respected, to be trusted, to be loved. well all have those things that we can pick out about ourselves that we just hate. "My legs are huge" or "my hair is too frizzy". But for every negative thing you think about yourself, I'm sure you can easily match with something positive. Everybody out there has something special, unique about them that makes them irresistible. Sooner or later, you will learn that you are lucky to be you. Embrace who you are. Be grateful for what you do have. Don't waste time running from the person you are. Focus on becoming the person you want to be. We all have potential to be somebody great. We can change lives if we want to. All you have to do is believe in yourself. Don't put up with other people's negativity, and don't give in to their put-downs. If somebody doesn't like you, then that's their loss. Girls these days are too hung up on looks and weight and the boys that don't like them. Be who you are. Do what you like to do. Eventually you'll find somebody who appreciates all of that and will love you. Have faith in yourself. That's all there is to do...