Every time you hurt someone, you break off a little piece of them. Not only do they have to live with that broken piece, then the next person who comes along has to figure out a way to spackle that spot. Your behavior has ripple effects.
You can do this, and if you can’t do it today, you’ll do it tomorrow. You are not a failure.
The world was unkind to women. It was devastating to women who didn’t believe in themselves.
You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair, when everything feels like it’s collapsing in on you, and yes, when you feel like you want to die. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are not you.” Maile.
It’s not a weakness to take care of yourself. Asking for and taking what you need to function should never be considered a weakness.
Principles don’t have borders.
In the deepest, darkest depths of her heart where she kept all her dreams locked up in a pink journal decorated with ponies and unicorns, she’d fantasized about declaring her love for Sasha Karimi for two years. In those scenarios, he generally fell to his knees in thrilled delight before he reciprocated the feelings and then they got married and had lots of babies and maybe a pet iguana and lived happily ever after.
You can be strong and have moments of incredible despair. Those moments are not weaknesses. They are simply moments. And they are not you.
She wasn’t sure if she fully believed the words her therapist had given her to keep in her arsenal, but they helped. And one day, if she said them enough times, maybe she could absolutely believe them.
He started to curse but cut himself off. She wanted him to curse. She wanted him to be bad, as bad as her. She wanted to corrupt him, stain his pure soul, stamp the imprint of her nastiness on him.
Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that’s the only way you figure out who your closet people are.
Because it was far easier to be kind to other people than it was to be kind to herself. I deserve compassion. Ugh. She did. She really did. Tani.
Had she wondered where the pain portion of that pleasure-and-pain cycle was? Oh. It was right here.
Find me the empty soul who doesn’t get emotional over While You Were Sleeping.
There’s no such thing as being problem-free. You can really only hope for someone who’s able to share your problems with you.
Nothing’s over ’til you quit.
I’d be the safest wrong thing you could do.
In the nonprofit world, the more a charity gala looked like a party where a supervillain might take the guests hostage, the more of a success it was.
Humans were complicated. Parents especially so.
You were hurt. It’s not a weakness to love someone like that. It’s not a weakness to be in pain when that love is ripped away from you.