“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Once you start choosing yourself, people don’t like that.
“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo
don't look at me with those brown eyes or I might just spend the rest of my life keeping your hands warm
I want to tease you in public so that when we get somewhere private, you put me in my place and we have the most disgusting, pervy, possessive sex🩷🔪🎀
Ottessa Moshfegh, from My Year of Rest and Relaxation
we’re under the same sky, at least
“Today I’ll be my own hero… I promise you today…Today, I will begin to save me.”
— Elizabeth Tapp
Give her romance and disgusting sex
I pull myself out of my own pain every time. We are not the same.
“One day she realized that she was the only one who could live her life. So she decided to stop worrying about what other people thought and start following her own path. She never looked back.”
— Samantha Gilbert
“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”
— C. Assaad
Write it out, it doesn't have to make sense to anyone or even yourself.
Just get out the words, purge it from your soul.
“Don’t be the reason someone feels insecure. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard and supported.”
— Cleo Wade
“If you hear people from my past speak of me. Keep in mind they are speaking of a person they don’t even know any more.”
— Unknown
“When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.”
— Louis C.K.
You deserve the love that you keep trying to give to others. You deserve the patience you show others. You deserve to be understood and seen and, most importantly, to be treated with respect.