For so long I thought that if I let someone in they’d hurt me. That’s what I saw growing up. That people walk all over you when you let them in.

Lauren Blakely, My favorite holidate 

I was so terrified that romance would never work out and I hate being vulnerable, and I somehow thought keeping all my feelings locked up would be safer. Then when everything blew up, I just shut down. 

Lauren Blakely, My favorite holidate

Everyone has things they hide from the world.

The darkness that calls to them when it’s quiet and lonely.

K. Bromberg, Hard to Lose

If life can remove someone you never dreamed of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having.

Rachel Wolchin

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Source: Sarame Shii

#DenormalizeTheSilentTreatment

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