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“Survival is usually guaranteed in my family. We’re rather hard to kill. Sanity, however, remains a daily question.”
“A word only has the power you give it. Truth is just five letters unless the promise of it is honored, and trust – those five letters are meaningless without a whole lifetime of evidence to back it up.”
“When you wear black clothes and someone asks whose funeral it is, look around the room and tell them you haven’t decided yet.”
“Sometimes the loudest things in the room are the words we don’t say.”
“You can be afraid and still strong, still fearless and indomitable. You can be afraid, and you can trust, and then when you’re ready, you can let go of the fear. Fear muffles you. Let it go, and then you can live out loud again like you’re meant to.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
“We’re taught that parents are the ones we’re supposed to trust to protect us, and if they do their jobs right, we get to learn self-reliance in a safe and secure environment. But when they screw up – and boy, do they screw up – parental betrayal is possibly the worst thing a person can ever go through. When the person you trust most in the world tells you you’re shit, you either believe them, or you break.”
the only power words have over us is the power we give them.”
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
“I have a dirty mind, and right now you’re running through it naked.”
“Best friends don’t care if your house is clean – they care if you have wine.”
