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101 " when someone offers to save you make it your mission to save yourself. - "
― Amanda Lovelace , The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
102 " birds can't fly awaywhen youclipone oftheir wings.you weren't satisfied with justclippingone ofmy wings.you torebothout fromthe rootto make surei could never fly anywhereeveragain.- mother & daughter "
103 " sticks & stonesnever broke my bones,but wordsmade mestarve myselfuntil you could see all of them.-skin & bone "
104 " if a housedoes notautomaticallymake a home,then a bodydoesn'tautomaticallymake a homeeither.-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin. "
105 " if you ever look at your reflection & feel the desire to tell yourself you’re not good enough, beautiful enough, skinny enough, curvy enough, then i think it’s about time you smashed that mirror to bits, don’t you? - use those fragments to make stepping-stones to your own self-love. "
106 " When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract. "
107 " shewas thepageboundgirl.-page to skin. "
108 " i would like to look into a mirror without inmediately looking away.- healing is ongoing II "
109 " fuck the idea / that there is / such a thing / as destiny, / that there exists / some kind of / mysterious master plan, / that there is a god who / simply / does not / give us anything / we cannot / handle.the pain / did not / make me / a better person. / it did not / teach me not to / take anything / for granted. / it did not / teach me anything / except how / to be afraid / to love anyone.i am / far too / young / to be so / goddman/ broken / & / if i could go back / in time / & give / myself / her childhood / back, / i would- what was the point? "
110 " can't i just be a paper girl with a paper life? "
111 " friendsdon't justlet friendsturn intosleepy dragons "
112 " How cansomeone betoo youngto bein lovewhen we werecrafted from ocean waves & starlight?-young love "
113 " The princessjumped fromthe tower& shelearnedthat she could flyall along- she never needed those wings "
114 " he is even better than books. - fiction has nothing on you. "
115 " guess what?you shinebrrighterthan all thestarlightthere hasever beenor everwill be. "
116 " What happens when your dreams are nightmares stuck on repeatrepeatrepeat? "
117 " Wheredo all thememories go,the ones wehide awaywithlock &key yetcontinueto shapeus all thes a m e? - did it really happen if i can’t remember it? "
118 " hurting others is a choice. "
119 " my mothersmiledas she offereda cube ofsugar in herupturned palm.greedily,i accepted.i reached insidemy mouth,delicately placing one(just one)on the centerof my tongue,& i clampeddown.salt.this is what abuse is:knowing you are going to get saltbut still hoping for sugarfor nineteen years.- you may be gone, but i still have a stomachache. "
120 " there camea time when poetry showed mehow to bleed without the demand of blood. - my most loyal lover. "