Prisoner, prisoner locked up

Can't get you off my mind, off my mind

Lord knows I tried a million times, million times

Oh-woah, why can't you, why can't you just let me go?

- Miley Cyrus & Dua Lipa

Relationships were inherently complicated, never nice and neat. And in my experience, love was chaos. There was nothing organized or orderly about it. If one was looking for perfection, they were never going to find it.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man

I understood the sentiment of constantly feeling like you had to put on an act to appear like you had it together, when on the inside, you really felt like a million little needles were poking at your most soft and tender spots. It was exhausting to constantly try and fool others into thinking you had it all together. It was even more tiring to trick yourself into believing it when you were bleeding from a hundred invisible wounds.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man

Her heart wasn’t hard like I originally thought when she dismissed me. No, it was just battered beyond belief and bruised so deeply that it was too tender for anyone else to touch.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man