“If the person you're talking with continues to press you for more or can't seem to accept your answer, then you are being harassed. I know that sounds hard for people-pleasers to accept, but it's true. No means no.”
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“Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.”
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“What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.”
― Forlorn Passions
― Forlorn Passions
“We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.”
― Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
― Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
“I don’t exist
metal pressed to pages
spilling blood, ink
in vein each thought rages
Sunlight shooting
through a forest of pines
black top winding
and yellow dotted lines
I am not here
only a deep aching,
a lightning flash
and a tree trunk breaking
Sheets once alive
covered in a deep red
mark the present
but I am not yet dead
Nothing is here
only the rain and mist
fresh air and soil
I do not need to exist.”
―
metal pressed to pages
spilling blood, ink
in vein each thought rages
Sunlight shooting
through a forest of pines
black top winding
and yellow dotted lines
I am not here
only a deep aching,
a lightning flash
and a tree trunk breaking
Sheets once alive
covered in a deep red
mark the present
but I am not yet dead
Nothing is here
only the rain and mist
fresh air and soil
I do not need to exist.”
―
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