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March 17 - March 18, 2025
probably feel differently if it had been me they’d gutted in the forest only two months ago. Well, I wouldn’t feel anything, I supposed. Because I’d be dead.
Ha
still had a pleasant time torturing, killing, and maiming. It just wasn’t as fun.
Teehee
I was an untrained, physically weak and small-statured human, and apparently vampires loved how I smelled. Which was ew and also not a great sign.
Teehee
I should’ve been exploring my other options to that end, cozying up to more turned vampires and eavesdropping on the born. I shouldn’t have been putting all my eggs in Rune’s basket. His depraved, toxic, fucked-in-the-head basket.
Ha!
I think anyone would be lucky to receive love like yours.”
Aww
won’t try to talk you out of this,” she said. “But I do need you to stop calling yourself names. You’re not crazy or stupid. You’re one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met, and I know that you understand the risks. Which means you’re unfathomably brave for forging ahead, anyway. For leaving the only home you’ve ever known to come to a city ruled by vampires. I only want you to be as safe as you can possibly
Love this!
“There are many people in this world who would love nothing more than to clip your wings. Stop doing it for them. Soar instead.”
HEARD!
“There is no competition in trauma. None of it is ever better or worse than any other. Trauma is not what happens to you. It’s what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you.”
Never a truer statement
It’s difficult for mortals to recognize patterns from their own limited perspective. They can’t see the way their great grandparents passed wounds to their grandparents, their grandparents to their parents. They can’t hear the echoes of the eons, fathom the trauma they absorbed from something that happened centuries ago, spread through words and actions here in the present.”
The accuracy!
“Two things. First, I never want to hear you say you’re not good enough ever again. It’s insulting to my impeccable taste,”
Ha!
Don’t accept the half-love that you’ve grown accustomed to. Only accept the full, staggering devotion that you deserve. It’s what we all deserve. To feel wholeheartedly chosen, desired, secure, and nurtured. Anything less is theft.”
Ouch!
My unmet hope was a wound that stretched on and on, that had me ricocheting uncontrollably between independence and avoidance to yearning and attention-seeking. Over and over, I was taught that in order to protect myself from disappointment, I had to lose all expectation from anyone but me.
Ouch again!
You’re compassionate and soft, intelligent and perceptive, well-spoken and unfathomably generous. You are even more beautiful within than you are on the surface. And I believe in you, Scarlett. I believe in your goodness and your light.” “I don’t.” “And I don’t care,” she fired back, rising to her feet and placing her hands on her hips.
Aww
So much has changed, but your worth has not. You mean something to people, and you add something remarkable to this world.”
Aww
“There is no deserve when it comes to love. There are no conditions or stipulations. You just love.”
Spot on!
