Strength Does Not Come From Winning

“No trauma is better than another. Don’t compare someone who drowned in 8 feet of water to the people who drowned in 30.”

“I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love?”

“What I’ve realized about hiding an unbearable amount of pain is that it makes you both the strongest and weakest person. Strong because you learn to cope with and handle all the suffering. Weak because it wears you down until all of you is broken.”

“I can be sweet smiles, etiquette, coiffed hair, and elegant dresses. I can also be a fireball of passion and stubbornness packaged in a leather jacket. Either way it’s my choice. Love me for what I am, or leave.”

friendly reminder

“You look at me like I’m all you could ever wish for, but I still wonder if it’s because I’m all you’ve ever known.”

“Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don’t count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It’s the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them.”

“Everybody is giving me tips on how to fly higher while I’m struggling to breathe without falling apart.”