I Tried To Tell Him....

I offered him these pages, these writings.

He feels that these words are merely how I want to perceive myself instead of how I truly am.

If I wanted to be perceived the way I write here, wouldn't I also show this side of me in public? Wouldn't the people I interact with regularly feel the same about me as I state I am here?

His loss.

Either he is a complete fool, he never cared to begin with, or his own issues are to substantial for a happy relationship to be worth the effort it would take to bring down his walls.

I'll never know.


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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. —Stephen King

I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done. —Turcois Ominek

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. 
—Mandy Hale

 Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.
—Goldie Hawn

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go. —Jourdane Erasquin

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.
—Arti Honrao

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
—Alice Walker

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
—Julianna Baggott