“Just fake a smile, fake a laugh, fake everything you can, you know nobody cares, nobody wants to deal with how miserable you really are”

“A girl who has lived through trauma has lived through a situation where her body, her mind, her self are not her own. Where she felt disjointed, ripped from her self, safety and sanity. It was a moment, an experience, a something where her trust was smashed, her worth gone, and all there was was pain.”

Why are you afraid

It's not a child's purpose to fill their parent's emotional gaps.

“For those who are stuck in shit homes: don’t worry. We’ll live our 20’s as we want. The things we missed out on as teens, we’ll get to do throughout our 20’s. It’ll be the greatest decade. Don’t worry about not having a proper teenage experience. Don’t think you’re missing out on your ‘coming of age’ stuff. We’ll do that stuff when we’re adults.”

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”