Willow Hepler

“My brother once called me a hard person. I think he meant that I am a person who does not forgive. This is true. I find it difficult to forgive people who have done harm to me. I am this way out of necessity, because if I do not remember the harm done to me, then no one will, and the boy that I was will have no one to look out for him.”
― Brandon Taylor, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I have built you a shore with all my best words & still, the waves.”
― Claire Schwartz

“I love my quiet. I hate how, in the after, my quiet has become silence. The room in my chest that was sky-lit has become a sealed and padded cell.
Your love brought me back to my quiet. I needed a new language. I needed a new story--one where I don't have to remember the beginning and don't know the end.”
― Claire Schwartz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture