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But when you turned off the pain, you turned off the pleasure. You couldn’t appreciate the way the moon glimmered on the lake. Or how a piece of chocolate tasted as it melted on your tongue. You missed the joy of friends wrapping you in so much love you thought you might drown in it. You weren’t truly living.
“One day at a time. It’s all any of us can do.”
“Sometimes, the world doesn’t have the right to your feelings. It doesn’t mean you’re hiding. Just that some emotions are only for the people you trust most.”
The truth has its own timeline.”
We can only control how we live until it’s our time. Do you want to spend your time worrying yourself sick? Or do you want to live?”
But relationships are hard. They’re work. You have to stick it out even when it seems like running would be easier on everyone.”
Why, for some, was the answer to pain to create more? To pass that burden in an effort to pretend it hadn’t scarred them? It never worked. It just left twice the destruction.
I didn’t need to prove my worth to the world around me, and that those who were meant to love me would see it in me every day.