Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
T.L. MARTINMaybe I’ve dragged myself through the mud since then, but even mud hardens beneath your shoes. I must be standing on a mountain of it by now. And no one can touch me from way the hell up here.
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If there ever was a time not to be fragile, this is it.
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I’m a bird trapped in a self-made cage.
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Pushing out a breath, I lean against the wall and slide to the floor. I sit beside her for as long as it takes. Listening until her sobs fade and the shower turns on.
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Instead of ignorance, I tasted what it might be like to finally be me. I didn’t give a show this time. I had no plan, no calculations. No scolding voice inside my head. For a little while, I was free.
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Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.
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Somewhere along the way, she weaved herself so deeply into my veins I can’t fucking inhale without her breathing life into me.
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Be you. All of you. Without consequence. Without judgment.
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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
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I don’t deal with them. And if I don’t deal with them, I have no reason to learn their names.
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A mouse trying hard to come off as a lion.
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Darkness watches me from every angle. My only friend. From its own place within the silence, it speaks to me in a strange way.
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.
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