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“Your self-destructive patterns are the least interesting thing about you; why are you allowing them to lead your identity? Is the damaged version of who you are really your whole story? Are you not bored with this narrative yet?”
😯😧😶🤢🫥🧍‍♀️

“Some moments are devastating, retching, abominable, horrible. Period. We don’t need to transmute every uncomfortable emotion into something shiny and useful.”

“What doesn’t kill you might traumatize you to the point of disintegrating your memory recall.”
I’m sick

“Healing is a series of tiny evolutions, born from ostensibly negligible choices, carried out day after day; it’s most often expressed in moments that have no witness other than yourself.”

“You as a person are a whole world of cities unto yourself. You’re so dynamic that you couldn’t possibly begin to measure yourself against someone else, and you do yourself a disservice every time you do. You won’t be for everyone; that doesn’t mean you need to change.”

I want the most insane romance book after I finish this. This book is gonna take me out

“You can’t control grief by subtracting joy from your life.”
The manic laughter that followed this statement was insane.

“You can change without healing, but you can’t heal with changing.”

“Personal accountability requires you to own up to your missteps, yes, but personal accountability is less about taking the blame for a mistake and more abut taking responsibility for the solution. Punishment doesn’t require an ounce of reflection, acknowledgement, responsibility, condolence, or a pledge and plan to improve. Punishment is lazy.” 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

“Connection will hold you over when nothing else can.”