Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

by Abby Jimenez

“Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks. You don’t know how broken she was or what she was trying to do to fill those cracks. Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”

Choosing a life without them doesn’t mean you stop caring about them. It just means that you can’t allow them to harm you anymore.

More Than Words by Extreme. A little too much of 1975 and Nothing But Thieves, but I think the Lola Simone tracks make it work overall.

Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.