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“But a secret is something we keep because there’s a chance that if someone knew our secret, they would use it against us or make us feel bad. Secrets usually involve things we’re ashamed of.”

-Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

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Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I’ll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn’t be it.

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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“I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to… I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace.”

-Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I’m not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn’t have the mouth to put it into words, to say what was wrong, to change the things I felt I needed to change. And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn’t even exist to them.

So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?

-“The Death of Vivek Oji”

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She was my fave when I was a kid!!!

I see you've read Lisa Yee's books! Have you ever thought how Millicent is sure to be fucked up later in life? Her only 2 friends before Emily used her for grades!

It’s actually been a long time since I’ve read Lisa Yee’s books but yes I do agree! She’ll need a lot of therapy to trust anyone again probably. (Also sorry for the late response, I don’t check this page often anymore!)

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I still have a lot of emotions over Junie B Jones and Ida B so I understand haha 😂

I see you've read Lisa Yee's books! Have you ever thought how Millicent is sure to be fucked up later in life? Her only 2 friends before Emily used her for grades!

It’s actually been a long time since I’ve read Lisa Yee’s books but yes I do agree! She’ll need a lot of therapy to trust anyone again probably. (Also sorry for the late response, I don’t check this page often anymore!)

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I see you've read Lisa Yee's books! Have you ever thought how Millicent is sure to be fucked up later in life? Her only 2 friends before Emily used her for grades!

It’s actually been a long time since I’ve read Lisa Yee’s books but yes I do agree! She’ll need a lot of therapy to trust anyone again probably. (Also sorry for the late response, I don’t check this page often anymore!)

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“That’s the thing about depression. A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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...but my foundation is crumbling and shattered glass is falling all over the sidewalks all over my feet. I am walking barefoot on broken glass in a very dark night. I am collapsing and I am collapsing on myself. I am shards of glass, and I am the person being wounded by the glass. I am killing myself.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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No matter if I ever got out of this depression alive, it made no difference because it had already fundamentally changed me. There had been permanent damage. My morose character would not ever go away because depression was everything about me. It colored every aspect of me so thoroughly, and I became resigned to that.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.

Elizaberh Wurtzsl, Prozac Nation

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Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible, getting covered over more thickly with darkness, coats and coats of darkness that are going to suffocate me in the sweltering heat of the summer sun that I can’t even see anymore, even though I can feel it burn.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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But what if you are the only resting point you know of? What if you are absolute zero? What if only you can catch yourself?”

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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“People say things meant to rip you in half, but you hold the power to not turn their words into a knife and cut yourself.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

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The tulips are too red in the first place, they hurt me.

Even through the gift paper I could hear them breathe

Lightly, through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby.

Their redness talks to my wound, it corespondends.

They are subtle: they seem to float, though they weigh me down.

Upsetting me with their sudden tongue and their color.

A dozen red lead sinkers round my neck.

Sylvia Plath, “Tulips”

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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Dalai Lama, qtd from everyday mindfulness: 365 ways to a centered life

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