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I hope you learn to care for the atoms that have created the intricate human you are, as deeply as you care for others.

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Someone who makes you and your memories together feel timeless.

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I love the way you fidget when I’m near you because I make you nervous. I love the way you’d constantly lock your eyes with mine. I love how your eyes search for mine even when there are hundreds of other eyes around you.

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You don’t fall in love.

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This could be beautiful, or it could crash and burn. But would you rather hold back and spend the remainder of your days wondering what could have been?

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Falling in love makes you strong. It makes you smart. It makes you fearless. And I think, I want to be fearless too.

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Now, promise you’ll never fall in love again. Promise me you’ll never hit rock bottoms again. Promise that you will take care of yourself. Promise me you will date again. Promise that you will love yourself.

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In order to make someone fall in love with you, you must give them positive motivation to want to be with you. At its simplest level this involves showing them your positive characteristics and traits so that they will be attracted to you.

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This is what I want to fall in love with. The city and the lights, not boys, or the idea of finding a boy. I want to fall in love with these places, and the people I pass by that I will never see again.

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I will love you on Valentine’s Day. And I will love you the day after, and the day after that, when the rose petals begin to shrink and die and fall off their stems.