#wlw yearning

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i swear i would do anything just to touch you again. i would give up everything if that means i get to see that smile of yours for the last time. i would happily rest in peace if i have the chance to tell you how much i loved you just once more. why is life so unfair?

i wonder what would happen if we ever meet again. would you be happy to see me? or would you just treat me like another stranger crossing the road?

tell me about your favourite books. tell me about the characters that made you swoon for days even after they’ve said their goodbyes. tell me about the storyline that changed your point of view regarding the real world. tell me about the sentences that you had to read multiple times as they felt so precious. tell me about the emotions you went through while living in a different reality. tell me about the experiences you gained after reading the last word at the last chapter. tell me what made you fall in love again and maybe i can understand you better after knowing what your imagination looks like.

i used to love airplanes. i loved going to the airport and packing my suitcases. i used to crave escaping to a different point of view and meeting strangers from all around the world.

that was before i met you. that was before i had to say goodbye to you while staring hopelessly at your sad smile. i never thought i’d look at you in that state and i never want to experience that heartbreak ever again. that was all before i had to feel what its like to be an ocean away from you.

how i wish im still as naive as before.

sometimes i wonder if im always going to go back to you. i feel bad for all the people i have pushed away for you but my mind won’t stop calling your name. i lay awake at night wishing for things to be different, wishing my presence is the one you crave. i pray to whichever God for our paths to cross again and i imagine all the sentences i’ll say in an attempt to make you like me again.

but do you ever feel that way about me when you’re with him?

Looking back, I think the hardest thing about letting you go wasn’t the fact that I had to forget about you. Truth be told, I have not forgotten about how head over heels i was for you at all. In fact, I still think about the possibilities of us being together in the future sometimes. However, what took me so long to accept was that I wasn’t in love with you. I didn’t know you at all and I still don’t. I was in love with the thought of you, a daydream of you in my head. I was in love with my imagination and it was selfish of me to paint a picture of you that may not even exist. Sometimes I wonder if you have even helped me to become a better person or was it my own mind that gave me the courage. Regardless of the answer, I’m still happy that I got the chance to love you.

Stranger in my dreams.

Is this loneliness or insanity? Your face is as clear as the night sky yet I’ve never seen you before. I can sense your presence near me yet you’re nowhere to be found. I hear the unspoken words you’re telling me yet silence surrounds me. I know you very well yet at the same time I don’t.

I worry about my future a lot. I wonder where I’ll end up and whether I’ll achieve my long-term goals. So many dreams yet so little preparation. I wish time would just slow down so I can have more time to think. I’m indecisive and have a hard time picturing what life will be like in 10 years. There’s only one thing that’s clear to me and that is to have you in my future. I hope my future life includes building a home with you. I hope future me can hold you in my arms every night as we talk about the past. I hope one day I’ll have the privilege to call you my wife and see the world with you.

And suddenly the future doesn’t sound so frightening after all.

Feeling peaceful was something I craved the most yet had trouble achieving. At night, all my heavy thoughts seem to come all at once and I got nowhere to run. I was slowly dying without anyone knowing. Until you came into my life and suddenly my nightmares were replaced with daydreams about us. You weren’t a superhero but you were a comfort I needed. Now feeling well-rested became a feeling I expect to feel every day. Not only did I fall in love with you but I also fell in love with life.

i have never felt interested in other people’s stories or backgrounds until i met you. i swear i can listen to you talk for hours and i’d still ask you to repeat yourself because i just like the way you talk. your voice is like melody to my ears, better than my favourite song.

Why yes I have been liking, as well as creating, a sizeable amount of posts regarding being pinned to walls, pirates, swords and daggers, however I remain comforted by the imagined scenarios and fantasies that have no possibility of ever happening in today’s world. So I think I win here.

40 WLW BOOK RECCOMENDATIONS

Here’s a list of wlw book reccomendations and their genres since it’s extremely hard to find. I haven’t read most of these!!

young adult / contemporary||romance||fantasy / fairytale||sci-fi / dystopia||mystery / thriller||horror / paranormal||historical||coming of age

[ 1 ] The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily Danforth (coming of age,young adult)

[ 2 ] Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden (romance,young adult)

[ 3 ] Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst (fantasy,romance,young adult)

[ 4 ] The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie (sci-fi,young adult)

[ 5 ] We Are Okay - Nina Lacour (young adult,contemporary)

[ 6 ] These Witches Don’t Burn - Isabel Sterling (young adult,paranormal,contemporary,romance)

[ 7 ] The Henna Wars - Adiba Jaigirdar (young adult,contemporary,romance)

[ 8 ] Queen of Coin and Whispers - Helen Corcoran (fantasy,romance,young adult)

[ 9 ] Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust (fairytale,fantasy,young adult)

[ 10 ] The Falling in Love Montage - Ciara Smyth (young adult,contemporary,romance,coming of age)

[ 11 ] Bleeding Earth - Kaitlin Ward (horror,young adult,dystopia,fantasy)

[ 12 ] Its Not Like its a Secret - Misa Sugiura (young adult,contemporary,romance)

[ 13 ] Criers War - Nina Varela (young adult,fantasy,romance)

[ 14 ] This is How you Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (sci-fi,romance)

[ 15 ] The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska (young adult,fantasy,romance)

[ 16 ] Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi (romance,young adult)

[ 17 ] The Difference Between Me and You - Madeleine George (young adult,contemporary,romance)

[ 18 ] Wilder Girls - Rory Power (young adult,mystery,thriller)

[ 19 ] Huntress - Kate Quinn (mystery,thriller,historical)

[ 20 ] Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan (fantasy,young adult)

[ 21 ] The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (fantasy)

[ 22 ] Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (historical,mystery,thriller)

[ 23 ] Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters (historical,romance)

[ 24 ] The Best Bad Things - Katrina Carrasco (mystery,thriller,historical)

[ 25 ] The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow (historical,fantasy)

[ 26 ] Wicked Saints - Emily A. Duncan (fairytale,young adult,fantasy)

[ 27 ] The Truth about Keeping Secrets - Savannah Brown (coming of age,young adult,contemporary,mystery,thriller)

[ 28 ] The Summer of Impossibilities - Rachael Allan (romance,contemporary,young adult)

[ 29 ] Youre Next - Kylie Schante (young adult,mystery,thriller)

[ 30 ] A Line in the Dark - Malinda Lo (mystery,thriller,young adult)

[ 31 ] High Desert - Kate Dalafield (mystery,romance)

[ 32 ] The Blind Goddess - Anne Holt (mystery)

[ 33 ] Ordinary Mayhem - Victoria A. Brownworth (mystery,thriller,horror,paranormal)

[ 34 ] The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (horror)

[ 35 ] Into the Drowning Deep - Seanan Mcguire (sci-fi,hororr)

[ 36 ] The Red Tree - Caitlín R. Kiernan (fantasy,paranormal,horror,mystery)

[ 37 ] Sawkill Girls - Claire Legrand (coming of age,horror,young adult)

[ 38 ] As I Decended - Robin Talley (horror,young adult)

[ 39 ] Adaptation - Malinda Lo (sci-fi,young adult,thriller)

[ 40 ] The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (historical,romance,contemporary)

This took a very long time to make so I would love it if you could repost!!!

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