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cognitive distortion; you tend to regard yourself as being worse off than you are (sometimes known as ‘faking bad’, where a person ‘faking good’ is determined to feel they’re better off than they are).
“But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The clan is my blood, and the Pillar is its master.
On my honor, my life, and my jade.”
― Jade City
On my honor, my life, and my jade.”
― Jade City
“Resilience is a form of magic…that’s in our blood, chile, and that’s somethin’ they ain’t gon’ neva take away.”
― Blood at the Root
― Blood at the Root
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