“Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance - you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and “continues” to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

“I am thankful for the difficult people in my life. They have shown me exactly who I don’t want to be.”

“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”

“If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

I just want to be able to forget they did that to me

The sad truth is I’m not staying alive for myself anymore it’s for the people I don’t want to hurt

A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted — mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.