Sebastion’s Folly

Learning the Ropes

⟢ "I'm not the person you knew. I need you to understand that before we go any further."

⟢ "I did what I had to do to survive. You can judge me for it. I already have."

⟢ "There are things I've done that I can't tell you. Not because I don't trust you. Because I don't want you to look at me differently."

⟢ "I left because staying would've destroyed you. I know you don't see it that way."

⟢ "Don't make me into something noble. What I did wasn't noble. It was survival."

⟢ "You want to know what happened? Okay. But you don't get to take it back once you know."

⟢ "I've been running from that version of myself for five years. And here you are, dragging it back into the light."

⟢ "I was a different person then. I have to believe that. I have to."

⟢ "You think you know what I came from. You have no idea."

⟢ "I'm not asking for forgiveness. I stopped deserving that a long time ago."

⟢ "The things that kept me alive back then would horrify you. They still horrify me."

⟢ "I built something new. Something good. I need you to let me keep it."

⟢ "Don't say my old name. I buried that person. Let them stay buried."

⟢ "I've done things I'll never say out loud. You're going to have to decide if you can live with not knowing."

⟢ "I came back because I owe you the truth. Not because it'll make either of us feel better."

⟢ "That chapter is closed. I can't open it again without losing everything I've rebuilt."

⟢ "You think I wanted to become this? You think this was the plan?"

⟢ "Some things you live with. You don't move past them. You just learn to carry them differently."

⟢ "I was so young and so scared and I made choices I'll spend the rest of my life answering for."

⟢ "You were there. You know what it was like. Don't pretend you would've done differently."

⟢ "I'm not who I was. I'm working every day to make sure of it."

⟢ "There are people I hurt that I think about every single day. That doesn't fix it. I think about them anyway."

⟢ "I disappeared because I had to. I'm back because I couldn't stay away. Both of those things are true."

⟢ "I survived things I don't have language for yet. Give me time."