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If You Stayed
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Brittainy C. Cherry5,351 ratings, 4.21 average rating, 834 reviews
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“That was the problem with falling in love when you were out of love with yourself: even monsters looked appealing then.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Through it all, he stayed.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Brave girl. Brave, brave girl.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Not every thought is worthy of a response. You have the power to say, ‘No, thought. You are wrong and you must leave this instant.’ You are the navigator of your life, and you can shut down any person, place, or thought that makes you feel lesser.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Still, life had to go on, and our house continued to be built as the foundation of our lives continued to crumble.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“We can’t keep looking to the past if we want to make it to the future.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“They don’t have to define you. They can come and go without attaching them to yourself and your worth. Not every thought is worthy of a response. You have the power to say, ‘No, thought. You are wrong and you must leave this instant.’ You are the navigator of your life, and you can shut down any person, place, or thought that makes you feel lesser. A good trick is to say out loud the opposite of any negative thought, three times in a row, to cement a better belief into your system.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“As a therapist myself, I could’ve gone into all the reasons why he was the way he’d been, but just because people had reasons for the way they were didn’t mean that they had excuses.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Well, as a friend, I say this… My advice doesn’t matter.” My eyebrows shot up. “What? Why not?” “Because it’s not my life, and I haven’t lived through the string of struggles and joys attached to your situation. Therefore, my input would be from a place that lacks the emotional depth and understanding that your heart needs to make this decision. You could ask a million people what their advice would be, and their words wouldn’t matter because it’s your situation, not theirs.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“Being a mother meant you pushed your own problems so far away to take care of others. Being a mother meant you lost yourself to save your babies. How dare Gabriel even ask me that type of question. Of course I was all right. It was the only thing us mothers were ever allowed to be—at least on the outside. On the outside we’d pretend that everything was amazing and wonderful, even though the world within us was crumbling into a million pieces.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
“That was part of healing, though. Sometimes things seemed to be getting worse before they got better.”
― If You Stayed
― If You Stayed
