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Holding grief within only made it boil, bubble and spit until it burned its way out, so it was better to let it flow free and face it head on. Pain was meant to be felt, just as all emotions were.
“We must feel the bad as deeply as the sea, for then we are able to feel the joy as high as the moon.”
The pain in my soul was a void I couldn’t face. The heartache and grief a yawning chasm just waiting to swallow me whole.
the physical pain having been a welcome reprieve from the agony raging within my soul,
A grief so endless that I couldn’t even comprehend it rushed in on me from all sides.
“Family loves without condition. I’ve forged my own family through determination, sacrifice, and dedication. They aren’t my blood, but they are bound to me deeper than you will ever be. You don’t just get to love me and expect that to be enough. True love is built on everything that exists outside of the word. It’s showing up when you’re needed, no matter the inconvenience. It’s knowing someone, truly knowing them, and accepting everything they are even where you differ or clash. It’s making effort despite the differences, it’s apologies when they’re owed and forgiveness even when it feels
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Real family were the people who earned their place in your life, not the ones who demanded things of you just because you were tethered to them by blood.
Not letting people see the hurt in me, that I needed company right now more than I needed anything else in the world.
The walls I’d been building so forcefully were cracking, the weight of all I tried to hold back within them pressing out too powerfully. I would die from this pain. Slowly but surely, it would consume me and rot everything good I had ever claimed for my own. And I couldn’t even say I cared about that anymore.
But cruelty still happened whether you acknowledged it or not. Wasn’t pretending it didn’t exist just giving the monsters of this world license to carry on being monsters?
the last piece of the girl I’d been shattering as I found myself utterly alone in the world with no one to hold on to at all. I
We had been prisoners of this house and the man who ruled it for so long, and all that time we could have had each other, but Father had ensured that was robbed of us too. Isolating us. There was true power in making someone feel as though they were alone in the world,
