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1 " I want you to forgive me, not because I need your forgiveness, but because I want you to be free from hatred and the traps of resentment and bitterness. I want to stop your ankles from bleeding, I want peacocks to sleep on the edge of your nose, I want beauty to be forever in front of you. "
― Miller McKenzie , Autonomous Sun On The Platypus River: Thoughts For Walks
2 " I don’t know if glow worms know that they glow the way they do, and I don’t know if humans do either.Little lights we are. "
3 " I know that me growing and changing doesn’t entitle me to second chances with the people who removed themselves from my life, but I hope I can make proud the parts of them that did so out of love. "
― Miller McKenzie , Dolphins Eat Cake For Breakfast: Thoughts For Dreams
4 " I used to think showing my pain to the world was a way of helping others who experience similar pains. I didn’t mind being seen as broken as long as it made someone else feel less broken. Though as time has gone on, I am learning that the most important thing I can show the world is actually my healing. I need to show the world the temporariness of pain. "
5 " Forgiveness is ripping out a weed from inside your heart and planting a sunflower there instead. "
6 " My pain will eat your pain. "
7 " Every mistake I’ve made in my life so far feels like each was a log being thrown onto a fire. So many logs now crackling under my ribs burning me from the inside. I wait for the day a flame bursts out of my belly button. "
8 " To love someone with no house in their chest is to endure nothing else other than the slow spinning pirouette of the vicissitudes of life. "
9 " If dead trees are beautiful so are dead memories. "
10 " I miss meeting everyone I’ve ever loved in the corner of parties I didn’t want to be at. "
11 " I was dropped at birth and left on the ground. Now I am crawling, and there’s a rainbow beneath me. "
12 " My body is a house and it is haunted by it’s previous owner, a man who hoarded pain. "
13 " I was born with a broken heart, weren’t you? "
14 " My body is a house and it is haunted by its previous owner, a man who hoarded pain. "
15 " Perhaps the opposite of evil isn’t good, rather it is loved. "
16 " I was digging a hole to throw all my problems down, but I fell in right at the end. "
17 " Last night I reached out to all of my friends, no one reached back. I then reached out to god, I heard a beep and was asked to leave a message. "
18 " A day without you is 25 hours long. "
19 " When she opened the door to my heart, she pulled it off it’s hinges and now everyone can peer inside at my love. "
20 " I pictured my life before me, constantly forgetting items on a shopping list I wouldn’t have ever wanted to write. I pictured my life constantly forgetting my friend’s birthdays, but always being the best gift giver whenever I did remember. I pictured my life where the bread was always eaten the day it was bought, where the cheese was locally made. I pictured my life and saw my wife dancing in the kitchen in a yellow dress that bounced off the back of her ankles as she turned laughing and singing. I pictured tiny footsteps trailing mud over the floorboards and saw tiny hand marks on the walls, I pictured paint everywhere and flowers never dying. I pictured my life and saw myself always dressed perfectly for whatever the temperature outside was. I was crying myself to sleep, forgetting the bills piled in the draw beneath the sink, I pictured my life as my future and not my dream. "
