HannahSeries

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”

“So in the night I write messages to you notes and poems I know I’ll never send.”

“We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.”

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”