Holly Riordan

Strong girls aren’t afraid to date again, even though they were hurt badly in the past. They might put a barrier around their heart, but they’ll take it down for the right person. 

Sometimes you feel annoying because you keep asking if they’re mad at you, if they’re bored of you. You need constant reassurance that they still love you, that they still want you around. You’re terrified of becoming a burden to them. 

You have trouble making big life decisions. You don’t want to be chained to one place.

Wait for the kind of relationship that makes you believe in love again. That makes you forget about your exes and all the other boys who have hurt you in the past. That makes you understand why people give love a second shot, even though they’ve been hurt so badly before.

She stayed, because you two have history. Because it’s hard to walk away from someone who knows you better than you know yourself. Because it sucks to admit you spent so much time on the wrong person. 

You’re comfortable being bored together. Going grocery shopping together. Brushing your teeth together. Sitting on opposite sides of the couch and reading separate books. 

You are allowed to feel your heart sink into your stomach when he posts a picture with his ex-girlfriend, when you send him a text and he forgets to respond, when you watch his snap story and see that he was out partying with a group of girls prettier than you. 

Fall for an intelligent girl, because she will have real, raw conversations with you.

What happened to you wasn’t fair. What happened to your family wasn’t fair. Nothing about your death was fair. 

Date someone who will kiss you in the ocean, even if your lips taste like salt water.

The technician’s face paled. She called in a doctor, and another, and another.

She keeps her phone on the edge of her bed and wakes up to every beep, even though she knows she’s going to be half-asleep the next day.

I’m tired of meeting up with my friends and having nothing to say to them, because nothing has really changed since the last time we hung out. 

You’ll glance at his Instagram to see how he’s doing, but you don’t click on every single picture to get a closer look and read the caption. You’re curious about him, but you’re no longer obsessed. 

Wait until you find someone who deserves all you have to give.

“In the last decade there have been a number ships showing up in Japan. Everyone on board is dead.”

The best boyfriends never make excuses. When they screw up, they admit it. They apologize. And they try to make things right.

She doesn’t want to let someone into her heart if he is only planning on breaking it. She doesn’t want to let down her walls again.