Whatever it takes

“I need you to love me a little louder today.”

“Love didn’t hurt you. Someone who doesn’t know how to love you hurt you. Don’t confuse the two.”

“I would never speak to a child the way I speak to myself.”

“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”

“Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.”

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

“Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”

“Working on myself, by myself, for myself.”

“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.”

“When she is happy she can’t stop talking. When she is sad she doesn’t say a word.”