One day, you will be someone’s favorite thing, and you will not be confused — you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who isn’t fighting for you.
“the gulf between what we know in our minds and what we feel in our hearts is often an insurmountable distance.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“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
“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― 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
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