“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else's cause than to sit with who we are without one.”
― The Knight and the Moth
― The Knight and the Moth
“You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
― The Knight and the Moth
― The Knight and the Moth
“Careful. In nature, beauty is a warning. The pretty ones are often poisonous.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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