Totally and Completely Fine

All these supposedly life-changing events—forgotten. Or maybe it was that society tended to put more value on the way a woman’s body changed versus anything else about them.

I don’t mind the pain,” he said. “It reminds me that I still have a heart to break.

Love is a shape-shifter. It will look different at 18 than it will at 40 than it will at 80. It will feel different. You don’t fall in love – it isn’t something you trip and tumble over. Love is something you need to hurtle yourself into - something you race toward heart first, even if you don’t know what will happen. Especially if you don’t know what will happen.

Years of being... - loved like that - had taught me that what mattered was how someone made you feel.

… - the heart expands. There was even room in it for me. Messy, tired, angry, sad, scared, confused, unsure me. I didn’t have to be perfect to be loved. I could just be myself. And that was totally and completely fine.