M. ☁️

“Sometimes you can fool yourself into thinking you’re “over” something. Then you catch yourself saying things, doing things, avoiding things, realizing you never truly got over anything. You just set new boundaries so that the same thing couldn’t happen to you twice. Time doesn’t heal most wounds. If you’re lucky, time distracts you long enough so that you can forget.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? —William Shakespeare”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“He’d left without a backward glance. Without a goodbye. I stood rooted in place, even though every part of me wanted to run after him, apologize, and beg him to wait for me. After all… I would only be getting older.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Older