“It’s funny how life works out. You stay in bad situations for so long, convincing yourself that it’s the right thing to do. You lie to the people you love in order to hide the truth from them, but you hide the truth from yourself too. I don’t know why. I don’t know what makes us think we deserve to be in those messed-up situations. Maybe it’s the way we were raised. Maybe we don’t have enough self-worth. Or maybe we need to go through those tough times in order to get to the good that’s coming.”

