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01Undated

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

02Undated

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

03Undated

After you leftI stared at the drivewayFeeling its emptinessWondering if you’d return.After you leftI thought about your questionsWishing I hadn’t been so bluntWondering if I scared you away.After you leftI remembered how you felt in my arms.How you fit so perfectly there. Like my guitar.Wondering if I should have kissed you when I had the chance.After you leftI sat in my roomRemembering all the things you said, andWondering about all the things you didn’t.After you leftI sat in silence.Missing you in a way I didn’t quite understand.Wondering if you’d ever come back.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

04Undated

It's me, asking him to let me in. Asking all of them to give a chance to show them that, deep down, I'm not who they think I am. Or, maybe I'm exactly who they think I am, but I no longer want to be.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

05Undated

Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You’ve made mistakes all your life and you’re going to keep making them.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

06Undated

And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote

07Undated

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

Tamara Ireland Stone / quote