Lonely Starters

musings-and-memes:

“I’m better off alone.” 
“Leave me be.” 
“I’m safer on my own.”
“Can’t be hurt when there’s no one else around to hurt you.” 
“Doesn’t it hurt, being lonely?”
“Is loneliness truly the answer?” 
“You don’t have to be alone.”
“I don’t want to be alone anymore…”
“I’ll stay with you.”
“Stay with me… please…”
“I’d take loneliness over betrayal any day.” 
“Not everyone will betray you.”
“I’ve been betrayed one to many times to believe that.” 
“You do know you can trust me, right?” 
“That’s what everyone says.” 
“I’ve been hurt by people so often, I can’t feel the ache of loneliness anymore.”
“Is this truly what you want?” 
“Being alone protects me.”
“Is that protection worth never knowing true friendship?”
“’True friendship’ doesn’t exist.” 
“The world isn’t made up of a bunch of backstabbers.” 
“It is according to my experience.”