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“codependency”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter: 6 Patient Files That Will Keep You Up At Night

“Lucas, do you feel hyper-aware of other people’s emotions?” I asked. “Perhaps you can sense when someone’s getting unhappy – or a conflict is brewing – so you step in to defuse it?” “Yeah, exactly!” He lit up. “How did you know that?” “The most common partner of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder isn’t the Narcissist,” I said. “It’s Codependency. Caretaking. People pleasing. Rescuing. People who feel responsible for the emotions of others, burdened by constant guilt and worry when conflicts arise.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter: 6 Patient Files That Will Keep You Up At Night

“Love Story—Taylor Swift”
― Morgan Elizabeth, The Distraction

“How naïve we are when we’re young. How easily we trust that the sun will keep rising and setting, warming our days. And what a terrible blow it is to discover it isn’t the sun that makes things bright, but the people who love us, so that when they’re gone, everything is plunged into darkness.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Pen Pal

“The kind of love where you can’t breathe when you’re away from the other person.”
― Shalini Boland, The Perfect Family

“At some point, I started to wonder if none of this was real and I was dreaming the whole thing. That’s something that has happened to me before in dreams—I’ve been trying and trying to dial a number and just can’t dial it correctly.”
― Freida McFadden, The Devil You Know