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“Maybe we could make a distinction between healthy and unhealthy forgiveness,” “Unhealthy forgiveness comes too fast and means there might be circumstances where you let yourself get hurt again. But healthy forgiveness has to come after time to think. In that case, you respect yourself enough not to let yourself be treated badly again.”
“But forgiveness isn’t the same as reconciliation"

“If you forgive people too easily, they get the feeling they can do whatever they like. That means that the anger of the person who had something bad done to them is the punishment for the guilty person, who desperately wants to be forgiven,”

“Forgiveness generally follows a harmful act,” says Ruby’s voice suddenly. “But forgiving someone for the pain they’ve caused you doesn’t make it just go away. As long as you can still feel the pain, forgiveness is wrong.”

Kinda messy for a 23yo(?) college graduate to date a 17yo highschool student, borderline predatory

When I was 21 the thought of an 18 year old kid hitting on me made me gag but go off I guess Graham

Picking tumblr for this is ludicrous 🤣

“That evening, I set up an anonymous profile on Tumblr. I just wanted to let everything out, without consequences. My first post was just a pile of messed-up words. I just wrote out how I felt and that I wished I could be a completely different person. A day later, I got a really sweet message.”
I stare at her. “From Sutton?”

I want to know why that man was on tumblr. What fandom was he in???

For a moment he knew ✨cosmic✨ love

He might just die, it would make no difference

https://open.spotify.com/track/2F3N9t...

Ruby is scarily good at avoiding me. It’s like she’s memorized my timetable by heart so that she doesn’t bump into me anywhere. When our paths cross, she walks firmly past me without deigning to look at me, both hands gripping the straps of her green backpack. Every time I see her, I remember her card, which is folded up in my wallet

James is down bad crying at the gym, everything comes out teenage petulance

I’m giving myself this one evening and night to mourn for what there was between James and me. To grieve for the friend I’ve lost without knowing why.
But no longer than that. I’m still me, and I’ve sworn to myself that I won’t let anything or anyone get in my way.

I love Ruby, only 18 and so wise