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The investment in what you build together: a home, children, a family, a place in society. The fear of losing that is what tides a marriage through life’s storms. Not love.”
How can there be equality and inequality between things that are one and the same?
You calm the restlessness inside me. You feel like an answer to questions I don’t even know I have.”
“People are dicks, Miru. Society has given them permission to be dicks as long as their evil is focused on those who can’t protect themselves.”
“You did everything you could. You had to survive. You can’t judge your courage in a different world based on the world you’re in right now.”
“I don’t know why people associate that word with the physical. If you’re in love, if your hearts recognize each other as a piece of themselves, you’re lovers. When will people stop using lust to devalue love?”
My soul cannot carry the burden of so much unfulfilled wanting to the next life.
He leans into me, wipes my tears, and places a kiss on the top of my head. That’s when I know exactly what he meant when he said he fit. I fit in my skin more than I ever have. I’m filled with pain, but I’m no longer a stranger to my own pain. I’m no longer a stranger to myself.
“It is hard to do the thing you want when you’ve been taught that doing what others want means loving them.
“When you’re true to yourself, even when something hurts, it feels good. When you’re betraying yourself, even when something is supposed to feel good, it hurts.”
