“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.”
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“Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.”
― Blind in Justice
― Blind in Justice
“To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart..
To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away.”
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To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away.”
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“Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”
― Chain of Iron
― Chain of Iron
Bethany’s 2025 Year in Books
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