Holly Riordan

You should date someone who wants you and only you. 

You’re telling her that she’s good enough to sleep with but that she isn’t good enough to date.

I tried to scream in the dream and kept trying to scream when my eyes popped open, but no sound escaped. I couldn’t even force my lips to part. The most I could do was bob a toe, twitch a pinkie.  

She wants to date you, but only if you meet her expectations. 

I trusted you with my heart, with my secrets, with my skin and my bones.

He is not the last guy who is going to flirt with you. Who is going to hold you close to cuddle and plan out exciting dates and tell you how much he misses you when you aren’t around.

Would you rather see a shadowy figure outside of your bedroom window or feel like someone is following behind you on your way home from work?

You are allowed to delete his number from your phone and block him from every social media account you own. 

You don’t need a boyfriend, because you’re badass on your own. 

If he really liked you, he would want to speak to you in-depth, not in snippets. Not in five word messages and ten second long pictures. 

When she’s sober, she knows it’s a bad idea to let you back into her life.

It’s okay to take a hundred selfies, because you don’t like the way that you looked in the first ninety-nine of them. 

You can be independent and be a lovesick girl who counts down the seconds until her boyfriend comes home from work.

Whenever you post an attractive picture of yourself on social media, he texts you.

If he really liked you, then he would put down his phone and pick up your hand. He would stop texting you and whisper into your ear.

“When SWAT pulled her out, she had completed multiple circumcisions on herself with the scissors, completely cut her nipples off, and had sodomized herself multiple times with multiple steak knives.”

“She was screaming so much but she stopped for a second, looked me in the eye, and said: ‘Please don’t let go’. And then my grip gave in and she fell about 4 stories into some rocks near a river.”

You took a good girl and you put her through hell.