They Lived And Laughed And Loved And Left.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home

“Part of maintaining your energy is limiting other people’s access to it” - carajojo // isuperbloom.com

Joy Harjo, from “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet”, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

https://iglovequotes.net/

It's one or the other. Can only pick one!

Which one do you choose?

It’s been a whole week of “I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age, from when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones, I’m a solider whose returning half her weight, and did the twin flame bruise paint you blue, just between us, did the love affair maim you too, and in the city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well” being stuck in my head and I wouldn’t have it any other way

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.

— Silas House, Eli the Good

When the time comes, you will see who is fake. Do not let it be you.