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This one is for Past Me, for all those times she kept going. Future Me finally gets it.
Your magic knew exactly who you were. That’s why your spell was a shield, not a sword.”
And that’s what it’s been like ever since. Like little pieces of me keep chipping away, bit by bit, and each time something goes, that version of me dies. Sometimes it’s big things that do it. Sometimes it’s small, stupid things.
Related to this quote way more than I thought I would ever relate to a book quote.
It’s like the world gets just a little less magical each time, and I get a little smaller. And every time I close my eyes, there’s a huge, dark emptiness where the stars are supposed to be.”
I call this living with major depression. So relatable.
“I was loud and excited and too much of everything as a child, but I learned very quickly that it was much easier and that my parents liked me much better when I wasn’t so me. So I did as I was told, and I was careful about what I said and what I did and how I behaved, and eventually, I didn’t even have to try very hard anymore.
