“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
— Margaret Atwood
“I will not be another flower picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.”
— Erin Van Vuren
“Healing is layers. Healing is time. Healing is excruciating. Once you think it’s done, it’s not.”
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Mary DeMuth
“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation for the little things, my vivid inner life, my deep awareness of others’ pain, and my passion for it all.”
— partyof5plus1.tumblr.com
“You must go on adventures to find out where you really belong.”
— Sue Fitzmaurice
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.”
— Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
— Miriam Adeney
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
— Joel Osteen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)