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January 19 - January 26, 2025
The monsters from your childhood can only haunt you if you let them,
While it’s natural to internalize the past, it’s not healthy, and it doesn’t have to be that way, not forever. John is just a man, a horrible man, but he’s only a man and only has the power you give him.”
Feelings tend to govern us, not the mind. Find a way to move on from feeling the way you do because your brain already knows he can’t hurt you anymore.”
“Oh, Elle?” I glanced behind me. “Happy Birthday.”
reading this on my birthday lol
“Over the past century, through technological achievements, we made our world smaller.
If the president was alive, that meant she had a plan.
Alaska’s most famed and intriguing oddities.
The sound of silence will set you free. In the silence there I’ll be.
Spotting shadows on his neck, I leaned closer. They were burns.
The man Elle killed? Was it Elle?
it was a daily struggle to remember why being alive was considered lucky.
Nothing was certain, everything felt wrong, and I was tired of feeling lost.
Every dream ended with an aching loss, but I would awaken to a house teeming with life. Like grief, sometimes it overwhelmed the senses.
Every reason I needed to go my own way was exactly why I wanted to stay, and I had hours yet to think about it.
“Hoping and wishing are pointless. Suck it up and do something instead.”
“the H1N1/12 virus that ravaged the lower forty-eight before it made its way here . . . People got very sick.”
“Sometimes families have a way of forming, even if we don’t think we need or want them.”
Nothing was certain and change was inevitable, no matter how big and small. No matter how heartbreaking.
“You find people in your life when you need them,”
We would have to relearn the ways of the past to make it in the future.
“Pardon my prying, but seems like if you’re uncertain, it might not be the right answer.”
“It chose him,”
