Funny Story
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Waiting at the mailbox for birthday cards to show up. Waiting for a phone call on Christmas. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting, for someone who rarely came, feeling worse every time, until finally, I realized that the feelings wouldn’t stop until
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“Whenever you’re close, everything is better. The closer you are, the easier I breathe, the less I feel like life is just a never-ending pour of lemon juice into an open wound that won’t heal. You take away the dark, the cold. And you remind me what it’s like to want to be here.”
― Things We Hide from the Light
― Things We Hide from the Light
“You can’t force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don’t. Trust people’s actions, not their words. Don’t love anyone who isn’t ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don’t hold on to you. Don’t wait on anyone who’s in no rush to get to you.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“What if they hurt you?” “People make mistakes. A lot of them. You get to decide which ones are forgivable.”
― Things We Left Behind
― Things We Left Behind
“Perhaps one day, she said, there would be a safer time. When women could walk the earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“Listen, caring about things don’t make you soft. It makes you alive.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
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