- Sometimes I try to keep my pain close to the surface. Because I am scared that people will no longer want me once my memory of the hurt runs out. Once there is no more sadness to fill these pages. It is so easy to reopen closed wounds when people see my bloodshed as beautiful.
- I do not love my trauma. But at least it is something to wrap my hands around. At least it is something to keep me busy. At least it will be considered art to the people around me.
- In that moment, the only thing I feared more than having to die was having to survive.
- It is hard to be proud of how far you've come when there will always be miles and miles ahead of you.
- It is hard to forgive without an apology, but I am trying to do it anyway. Not because you deserve the forgiveness, but because I deserve to move on.
jan 4 2020 ∞
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