“I am so filled with you I am spilling over.”

toxic friendship can be just as traumatic as toxic romantic and/or sexual  relationships. your trauma is not lesser because you were “just friends” with someone who hurt you. 

“i’ve learned to love roses again because of a boy that reminds me nothing of you. i broke apart everything we tried to build together and refracted the light onto someone that deserves it. this was cathartic. spitting out the rain, putting out the fires. no more shattered glass. just all of these roses. just so many pink skies. turning love into a gentle creature that never learns to bite.”

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

“I think I’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive.”

“She’s known sadness, and it has made her kind.”

“Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to them as cannibalism.”

She never felt like she belonged anywhere, except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.