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learn to be okay...

"It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet."

“Even now, as broken as you may feel, you are still so strong. There’s something to be said for how you hold yourself together and keep moving, even though you feel like shattering. Don’t stop. This is your healing. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or graceful. You just have to keep going.”

a cigarette tastes almost sweet, like the memory of childhood candy, and hunger wraps itself around my stomach with the strange familiarity of a warm cherry pit pillow pressed against my body on nights when my stomach hurt and my mother brought me tea and dry toast and sat beside me until i felt safe.

Someone who truly loves us. They feel and hold onto any emotion that may still arise, how sad and melancholic it can be, and how difficult it can be to understand and show it, but even though it seems impossible, they will try again and again, waiting for the right moment to make you feel how much they remember you and that they will continue to love you.