you don’t get to choose your feelings, just like you don’t get to choose your family.
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“warmthless as overbleached underwear, was all that remained.”
― The Elephant Vanishes
― The Elephant Vanishes
“We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.”
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“You don’t always know what it means when something means something. You just know that it means something. That it has meaning.”
― Sorry I Missed You
― Sorry I Missed You
“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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