She practices being herself every day. Having to shed the layers of other identities took time. She even lost friendships. She couldn’t fill their egos anymore. When you focus on yourself, and love yourself, some relationships have to go.
Adrian Michael
stay close to people who feel like sunshine
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself trying to put them back together.
Unknown
Take away this mask of flesh and bone and see me for my soul alone.
Jay Asher
“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
Rick Warren