"Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone's pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others."
- Shannon L. Alder
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"There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been."
- L.M. Montgomery
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"But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface."
- Katie Kacvinsky
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Short Story~"Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface." ~
