Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

I'm everything you thought I would never be. I'm the woman you thought I could never amount to. I have all the things you said I couldn't get and did all the things you said I couldn't do. Yeah, you're somebody's somebody, and while you're at a stand still I'm crawling to the top. You destroyed me, and now you motivate me,and inspire me, to BE better, to DO better...and to WANT better.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

Let's still be friends" (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).