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It’s in these quiet moments, in these conversations with my heart, that I realize I can never take responsibility for someone else’s bad character.

I feel powerful, like I no longer need to squeeze myself into smaller spaces to clear room for others.

“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”
—Emily Dickinson, personal correspondence

There aren’t enough sonnets for friendship. Not enough songs for the kind of love not born of blood or body but of time and care. They are the ones we choose to laugh and cry and live with. When lovers come and go, friends are the ones who remain. We are each other’s constants.

I’d literally 🔫 Edward….. wow