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Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up. Now there’s just an answering machine full of memories at the other end, fragments of a voice that are getting weaker and weaker.

Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton.

Anxiety... how can something that bangs away at us so horribly hard on the inside not show up on the pictures as black scars, scorched into our skeletons? How can the pain she feels not be visible in the mirror?

“Only children think certain things are self-evident: always having a best friend, for instance. Being allowed to be who we are. Being able to love who we want.”

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”

“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”

“Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.”

“It’s strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered.” - p. 83