We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.
I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart.” – Adieu
I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us…
These were the things we would never notice were missing.
The diamonds glinted under the glare of the chandelier and they looked like a thousand spider eyes
The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.
I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.‘For the big job,’ you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I’d never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.
Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them… You were someone to me.
He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.