The Inmate
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“I’m sick of matching other people’s energy this time you match mine and see how you grow”
― Healthy Love | Toxic Love
― Healthy Love | Toxic Love
“The moment you walked in my office and asked for my help, you became mine. Mine to protect and mine to teach,” he replied firmly.”
― Boss
― Boss
“how do i welcome in kindness when i have only practiced spreading my legs for the terrifying what am i to do with you if my idea of love is violence but you are sweet if your concept of passion is eye contact but mine is rage how can i call this intimacy if i crave sharp edges but your edges aren’t even edges they are soft landings how do i teach myself to accept a healthy love if all i’ve ever known is pain”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
― The Sun and Her Flowers
“MOST OF US have harbored a fantasy wherein we return to confront a lost first love, and, in that reunion, we have become better looking, thinner, richer, utterly desirable— so desirable that our lost love realizes instantly that he has made a terrible mistake.”
― The Stranger Beside Me
― The Stranger Beside Me
“Today may not be my day, but I have 364 to make better.”
― I Am More Than My Nightmares
― I Am More Than My Nightmares
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