• could I have told you? even without your iron suit, you still wear your skin like armor.
• you think you care too much, that you love too hard. and you're scared that you'll suffocate people. that they'll leave you because you're too much. so you pretend to not care, and hope no one sees.
• so you pretend to like the things you don't, and you pretend you don't like the things you do, and then they'll never know where to hit so it hurts.

(fanfics stevetony)