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Mariah Lapham
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“You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.”
― Open Road Summer
― Open Road Summer
“Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.”
― Dare You To
― Dare You To
“I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love.”
― Love Her Wild
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love.”
― Love Her Wild
“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Howl's Moving Castle
― Howl's Moving Castle
“Nothing had been okay, not for a long time. And every moment that I thought I was getting close, like the one I’d had earlier, seemed to remind the universe that I didn’t deserve that, not yet.”
― Saint Anything
― Saint Anything
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