Take Me with You When You Go

by David Levithan

And I guess that reminded me he’d lost something too. It might have been an illusion, but losing illusions can hurt almost as much as losing people, I think.

Here’s the thing about trying to make them happy—the people who want you to make them happy usually aren’t happy people to begin with. If they’re asking you to do something you don’t want to do, something that’s not really in you, they’re only going to be happy for like a minute before they find something else they need you to do for them.

There’s no point in hiding what’s happened to you, because other people’s mistreatment of you is their shame, not yours.

Whenever you’re in the worst place, there is always a better place.