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“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.”

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy

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“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me. Love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person. Love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of. Love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.”

— The O.C.

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📲 DING! You just got a text from - RICKY SHEN

Boyfriend Texts

Warnings : mentions of drinking and reader getting drunk

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Your soul knows. It will literally tell you when it's time to start a new chapter of your life. Trust it.

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Nobody talks about how exhausting it is to be numb to everything

To drag yourself through every day knowing that you’re not going to get any pleasure or enjoyment from anything you do

To feel blank towards everyone and everything

It’s a never-ending cycle of looking to everyone else like you’re alive but feeling completely rotted down inside

I just want to feel like a person again

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Stop scrolling for a minute, take a deep breath. Come and sit down with me for a minute, I’ll make us some tea. It’s a quiet morning, apart from the birds of course. We can sit here for a while, we can chat or just pass the time of day. Or we can go for a walk if you want, my dog can come with us. She doesn’t walk very fast but it will give us time to take in the wildflowers as we go. Or we can go into town and wonder around the secondhand bookstores because there are so many stories we haven’t read yet. And there is something magical about secondhand books, knowing they’ve been loved before. Time passes slowly here, there’s no where to be. Remember no matter how bad things seem, everything will be okay. You’re safe here, darling. Stay as long as you like and you can always come back. Chin up, my love. You’re going to be just fine.

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Dandelions symbolize everything I want to be in life

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i hope you heal from the things no one ever apologized for

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Sometimes the only way I can tell if I’m hurting is if I start getting grumpy. Like when someone asks me to twist around in my chair to look at something and I immediately get pissed off, it’s usually a good sign that I’m not actually managing my pain all that well...

When you’re in pain all the time it can be weirdly easy to forget that it’s even a factor. You have to look for symptoms of pain that aren’t pain, like brain fog, or exhaustion, or irritation.

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You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. It doesn’t matter what others did to you, you are going to forgive them because you don’t want to feel sick all the time. Forgiveness is for your own mental healing. You will forgive because you feel compassion for yourself. Forgiveness is an act of self-love.

— don Miguel Ruiz

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“Sometimes we don’t even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”

— Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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“Some people create their own storms then get upset when it rains.”

— Unknown

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“It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you.”

— Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

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Something that helps me fight back the feelings of "it could've been worse" is to tell myself "it could've been better" instead.

If you're a trauma survivor, remember that you deserved better, no matter what.

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one time at a wax museum i thought one of the tour guides was a wax person cuz they were just standing there not moving so i go up to them like “who the fuck is this supposed to be” then they just looked at me and laughed