"he called other girls pretty. i didn’t want to be pretty; i wanted to be intelligent, i wanted to be..."

“he called other girls pretty. i didn’t want to be pretty; i wanted to be intelligent, i wanted to be the light in his darkness, i wanted to be the best poem he ever wrote, i wanted to be his muse, i wanted to be the best thing he’s ever had. so the other girls could be pretty, but i want to be more than pretty on the outside, i want to be beautiful on the inside”

- unwrittenphrases 
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