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“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

— Unknown

“Trauma permanently changes us. This is the frightening truth about betrayal. You never really get over it. At best, you grieve and make some kind of peace with it. But a major life disruption leaves a new normal behind. There’s no going back to who you were before.”

— Unknown

“Some people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”

— Reyna Biddy

Maturing is accepting you won't always get all the answers or apologies for the shit that hurt your heart...but you heal anyway.

anne carson

— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

— Jane Austen

May 11, 1931
Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice