“thank you for your concern, but I am not taking any feedback on this issue right now.” Or my personal favorite: “The key for me being able to begin to run a functioning home was when I stopped talking to myself the way you are talking to me right now.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“Grief isn't linear. There's no formula to it, and sometimes you feel guilty for feeling or not feeling a certain way. That's okay.”
― For Whom the Belle Tolls
― For Whom the Belle Tolls
“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Assistant to the Villain
― Assistant to the Villain
“It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it was better to remain lonely than to waste companionship and energy on someone undeserving.”
― Assistant to the Villain
― Assistant to the Villain
“Seeing herself as unimportant was safe. Unimportance was safe, being a disappointment was safe. There were no expectations, no standards, no more pedestals to fall from.”
― For Whom the Belle Tolls
― For Whom the Belle Tolls
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