She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.
— Dia Reeves

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
— Chinese Proverb

‎When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.
— Lifford

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
— Vincent Van Gogh

i hope i understand one day. maybe then i won't waste my tears on someone who never knew how precious they were, and at what cost they came.

i am loved. it may not be in the way i wanted or expected, but i will take this love and i will grow wonderfully from it.

i hate those times when i wake in the night, and can't go back to sleep because of my anxious heart asking "God, what have i done?"

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all through the duration of my relationship, i was told that i needed to be more vulnerable. i hate that word. i don't even know what it means. cry more? well sorry, but i hate crying in front of people, so that won't be happening much. disclose my inner thoughts more? mmmmm, i'm gonna go with no. i don't think the world could survive my scathing inner dialogue and brutal mental honesty. bare my heart and soul? well maybe, as long as i can write it down in private and no one ever reads it.