you don’t get to choose your feelings, just like you don’t get to choose your family.
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“when you’re really hoping for something, and when that hope takes up so much space inside your rib cage that it’s hard to eat or breathe in, you have to dismiss the things that make sense to make room for it. It’s a survival thing.”
― Sorry I Missed You
― Sorry I Missed You
“Love was like a sewer: something you knew about but didn’t think about until someone left a manhole cover open and you just tripped right in and your stomach dropped like you were on a roller coaster and you felt thrilled but also like you were going to barf. Messy, painful, disorienting. Amazing.”
― Sorry I Missed You
― Sorry I Missed You
“And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.”
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Shatter Me
― Shatter Me
“Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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