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I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.

Your first heartbreak feels like a walk in the park compared to your second. Before your first heartbreak, you didn’t know any better. You were naive. You didn’t know how it felt to have your heart shatter. But your second? You did know better. You weren’t as naive. You knew exactly how it felt to have your heart shatter. And you gave someone else the chance to do that to you again. So your second heartbreak will be hell. A part of you will always blame yourself for letting it happen. Another part of you will know you’ve been proven wrong twice; you’ll start to really believe no one would ever actually take care of your heart. Maybe your first heartbreak burned out a light in you, maybe that light switched off. But your second heartbreak shut down every light within you.

When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.