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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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Tons more at the source!

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"𝑺𝒉𝒆’𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆, 𝑮𝒘𝒚𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒉, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍. 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒕."

commissioned by me with the lovely @ehmandinha

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This part was so sad oml 😭

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Gwyn whispered, “I am the rock against which the surf crashes.” Nesta straightened at the words, as if they were a prayer and a summons. Gwyn lifted the blade. “Nothing can break me.”

Emerie said, “Nothing can break us.”

art: xena.fay [instagram]

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acosf as john mulaney quotes because we all need that shit

nesta:

emerie:

gwyn:

cassian:

az:

elain:

feyre:

lucien:

eris:

+bonus

the House:

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Archeron sisters’ mates: we are mates

Archeron sisters: im going to need 5-7 business days to process this information

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Gwyn: *sharpens knife*  We’ve got ways of making people talk. 

Prisoner: *nervous*

Gwyn: *cuts cake*

Prisoner:…Can I have some?

Gwyn: Cake is for talkers.

Azriel in background, hiding in the shadows: Do not laugh. Do not laugh. 

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I’m not seeing anyone talk about the fact that Marvel just cast Alaqua Cox - a deaf Native American actress - to play Echo in the Hawkeye series, so...

(you can totally reblog this)

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absolutely obsessed with the way Fahrenheit is legitimately a superior temperature measurements for day to day life than celsius (more precise, accessible, and understandable) but ppl refuse to admit to it bc they’re so caught up with the “silly americans refuse to convert to metric” gag

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I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again

Fuck

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hate 2 say it but british ppl had the right idea with saying whats all this then. like literally whats all this then

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,