"Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?"


— Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger
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"I chose anger, because my sadness got me nowhere.
I chose to hate, rather than love, because hurting others was preferable to hurting myself."


— m.a.w.
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angrysuggestion:

there is no damage you can do to me that hasn’t already been done.

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"All of one’s life is a struggle towards that; the narrow path between freedom and belonging. I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging."


— Jeanette Winterson, from “The 24-Hour Dog,” The World and Other Places .
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"

every time
i planted my roots
i had to rip them out.

i do not settle any more.
i do not believe in homes.
i do not stay -
i go;
i leave;
i disappear.

i do not come back;
i arrive
never the same,
forever unsettled.

"


— marina v., too much of me is scattered on this earth. .
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