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"If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces."

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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I stated watching We Were Liars thinking it would be another light summer show about a group of friends having funny little teen drama, but it ended up being one of the best shows i’ve seen about trauma, grief and generational trauma and the long time effects of it. Watching these kids trying to break their family’s trauma was sad and painful. Realizing half of those memories were just Candence’s mind dealing with the pain and the grief totally BROKE ME, but watching her running away from allá the adults throwing her grandmother’s pearls to the ocean (the physical representation of the generational pain of the family) while wearing Gat’s necklace was so beautiful but also bittersweet as she was also leaving behind all the memories with the liars.

All i can think about is that famous quote “what is grief if not love persevering?” and that’s exactly how i can describe this show. Grief can feel like a dark whole but it brings us close to the ones we love in so many ways and that’s why we hold on to it.

Hands down best show i’ve seen this year so far

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Cadence Sinclair — We Were Liars, S01E01.

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Cadence’s first words to Gat being “are you real?” Is diabolical

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locking it in that im a we were liars fan before the show comes out. i read the book back in 2020 and the plot twist will never leave me. insane read, cant wait to see how they tackle it for the show.

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Sex and the City (1998-2004)

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mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’

[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]

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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli

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(by M. Angelovicova)

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“Do yourself a favor and learn how to walk away. When a connection starts to fade, learn how to let it go. When a person starts to mistreat you, learn how to move on … to something and someone better. Don’t waste your energy trying to force something that isn’t meant to be.”

— Reyna Biddy

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“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

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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Max Ehrmann; Desiderata

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“Happiness will come to you when you let go of the hurt that is holding you back.”

— Unknown

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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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“Stop calling yourself a failure. There are planets and stars in your eyes; There are fires and oceans in your veins. Your head is a forest, your heart a meadow. And you, my Love, are a work of art!”

— 3am

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October, Louise Glück