“We’ll get through this,” she whispered, and we both knew it wasn’t true.
“But even as I fought to make myself smaller, my self would fight back. The diets would not stick, the laughter would not quiet, the opinions would not hide, the anger would not die. Every attempt I made to be less of myself would fail, and I would come back bigger than ever—in every way.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“Of course I still want to believe him. I don’t think it’s simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it’s difficult to comprehend its meaning.”
― Beautiful Boy
― Beautiful Boy
“Forgive yourself for outgrowing certain people in your life. Forgive yourself for all of those moments you had to protect your energy, for all of those moments you had to make the hard decision to choose yourself, because by staying, and trying to fight harder, and give more, and be more, and fix and fix and save and save, you were only ever depleting yourself to the point of exhaustion. Forgive yourself for all of the times you tore up pieces of your own heart in order to mend another human being, hoping that it would heal them and nourish them and make them better or happier. Forgive yourself for wanting to save the people you loved.”
― A Gentle Reminder
― A Gentle Reminder
“And yet every time I think I can’t take any more, I do.”
― Beautiful Boy
― Beautiful Boy
“It must be like a soldier in a trench during a bombing raid. I’ve shut down every nonessential emotion—worry, fear—concentrating every neuron in my new brain on the moment in order to stay alive.”
― Beautiful Boy
― Beautiful Boy
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