And if nothing will free us from death, at least love will save us from life.

“My darling, you are allowed to fail without being a failure. You are allowed to make mistakes without being one. More opportunities will present themselves. You will find hope again.” - Unknown

Consent does not just apply to sex. It goes for anything whether that is hugs handshakes etc People do not need to disclose their trauma as validation for why they do not want to be touched. People are allowed to say “no” to any form of contact, whether they have trauma or not

sometimes the sun shines, even when it rains. so I try to find goodness, despite all the pain.

Just because you remember something doesn’t mean that you feel the warmth and affection you experienced at that moment. Feelings are lighter than memories and fly away much faster.

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

When you lose an emotional attachment to someone, you realize how ordinary they are. It's your love and your energy that makes people seem so special.

so you dated the wrong person& learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major & had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going.

Are you sure your unwillingness to leave your comfort space is a situation of money? Or is it a matter of bravery?

Grief finds a way. It just does. You can push it away all you want, compartmentalize it to the point where you think to yourself. But in reality, it just doesn't work like that. Grief burrows into you and it never goes away so you have to figure out a way to live with it'

You deserve love and peace and magic and joy dancing in your eyes. You deserve hearty, deep-belly laughter and the right to let those tears fall and water the soil. You deserve freedom and goodness and company and days of bliss and quiet too. Darling, you deserve it all.

Imagine you have someone who won’t give up on you and says: ‘‘we handle everything together, we fix it‘‘

“Sometimes you must force yourself to let go when every pore screams to tighten your grasp.”

You can say “I don’t have time” without meaning “every second of my day is booked solid.” You can mean “I am giving as much of myself as I can handle giving” and be completely, totally valid.