Caroline Bromley

Nobody looks exotically beautiful after three days of sleeping on a couch.

When you love someone, you choose them. You choose them over other people who pull at your heartstrings and play on your fantasies.

Ask anyone who’s ever succeeded: chances are their pasts are swarming with failures. Fail, and fail often. It’s proof that you’re learning.

Those who acknowledge they have flaws are usually the most willing to work through them. The ones who can’t acknowledge flaws are most likely to blame other people and then go cry about their feelings in a corner.

Your relationship was not a game that the other man/woman won because they were skinnier or sexier or had a cuter laugh than you.

In the mind of a writer, your story has not finished. We blame movies. We blame stories. We blame tales that our parents would tell us as we dozed off to sleep as young children; ones where the true love prevailed and where the pain wasn’t the end.

People compile sky-high lists about the benefits of travelling, and many of them are true. New experiences. Different perspectives. You should GET OUT WHILE YOU’RE YOUNG, they’ll tell you. GO FIGURE OUT WHO YOU ARE.