reasons to not to kiss him:
1. you weren’t raised to love tender.
2. when he’s around all you do is tremble. when he’s around you want to get on your knees. look how much power he has over you. it’s dangerous.
3. he’s too good at forgiving and you’re too good at violence.
4. you know what they say about monsters. you know what happens to the boys who love them. are you going to do that to him?
5. your hands don’t know how to be gentle. think about the last beautiful thing that shattered in your palms. the fresh rosebuds crumbling between your fingers like a bruise. you wolf-boy, you war machine. you wouldn’t know how to hold something magic and not destroy it.
6. if you hurt him it might kill you
7. if you hurt him you might kill yourself.
8. you are very bad at rehabilitation. this is one addiction you’d fail to give up. he’s going to ruin you for all other kisses and all other boys and you’ll spend the rest of your life trying to forget his name.
9. you still aren’t sure he isn’t a dream.
10. if you kiss him, you might wake up.reasons to kiss him:
1. because he’s beautiful.
2. because he asked. 
3. because he preceded please with, i’m not afraid of you.

I cared a lot once,” she admitted wryly. “And it ruined me. So now I don’t care for much at all. I work in extremes like that.

Real love doesn’t meet you at your best. It meets you in your mess.

It doesn’t
always take
a knife to kill
someone.
It just takes
a simple
goodbye.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

I love him;
I want him to stay away from me.

Trying not to think about her is the same as thinking about her.

Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.

She’s not cold hearted, she’s just tired.