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“Where there is anger, there is pain underneath.”

— Eckhart Tolle (via quotemadness)

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growing up I was always afraid of being Found Out. not sure what I was hiding. just my whole self I guess

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Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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“And so I drink, I drink until the bottle is emptier than I am.”

— 2am

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Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953″

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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

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Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

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how do you heal a rotten soul?

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“I just want to destroy everything.”

–Johnny Rotten

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“I think I am not an old soul anymore. I am a rotten one.”

— Kathernity

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“My body disgusted me, so I carved myself out of it.”

— Hannah Gamble, from “Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You (2),” Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast

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it’s hard to actually work on your life when you constantly feel like you’re not even real.

- it’s even harder to explain it

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When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.