

About a boy... It is hard, so goddamn hard, for me to love myself. Especially I looking like I do.About a boy... by ~gingerDEhaiku
I am not beautiful according to anyones standards and certainly not my own.
I dont mean to imply that only the beautiful deserve love or that the unattractive should be left to a life of loneliness and destitution, but it seems to be a sentence I have resigned myself to. And you cant tell me that the two, attractiveness and real romance, arent entwined- your looks earn your love.
At least from other people.
I know, I know, you shouldnt have to earn your own love. It should be innate, automatic like a survival instinct- u


Waaaaay too short. In love at a distance, so much of life has to be invented.Waaaaay too short. by ~gingerDEhaiku
That's a quote from some book I read once. It's all I remember about it.
And I remember that I hated it.
I read it at the suggestion of a man that means more to me than any other. I didn't want to finish it. The minute I saw its cover, I knew I didn't want to read it, or have any part of that thing in my head. But I read it. And I finished it.
For him.
Because I love him.
And I'd do anything he told me to do… short of dying of course.
That quote is special to me. It is special because I was able to pick it out from all the pretentious babble and self-important nonsense in that