I don't know how long is too long, but I do know that your struggles don't make you weak or abnormal. They make you human.

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain.

..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was fantastic on what a thin basis they had proposed to build their life. Apart from physical attraction, there was nothing between them but fun and parties, and that was not entirely a taste in common.
Life was like a jigsaw, but if you tried to fit the pieces together yourself, you generally got them wrong.

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.