Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you.

— Dominic Riccitello

Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve.

— Dominic Riccitello

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?

— Dominic Riccitello

He grabbed my hand and that’s when I felt my heart beat for the very first time.

— Dominic Riccitello

He said he liked my rhythm. I said I liked his heartbeat, and it was within that moment I knew our corners would never meet.

— Dominic Riccitello

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

— Dominic Riccitello

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would’ve just broken his heart.

— Dominic Riccitello

He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn’t flow within the same constellation.

— Dominic Riccitello

He was good and then perfect and then bad and then terrible, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.

— Dominic Riccitello

He was my entire world. He still is. My best friend, lover, partner in crime and my other soul. But he didn’t agree. A person isn’t supposed to be your entire world, he said. But he’s wrong. When you love yourself, you love others. When you find yourself, you find others. When you create your world, and it’s thriving, you create others. And I built an entire world for him. For us. As he once built for me.

— Dominic Riccitello