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“Sometimes I fall asleep with my finger on your wrist pulse to try and steady my own heartbeat.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir
“I was at the bottom.
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“The tight ball of muck inside me—I opened it. I opened the shame, and it crumbled next to yours. This connection—the one I didn’t think we were going to have—let some of my muck go. And when it left my body, it evaporated into nothing. It had been living in me, but as soon as it was exposed, it disappeared.”
― Separate Things: A Memoir
― Separate Things: A Memoir
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