Karsyn

“Well-wishers will tell you that wounds heal over time.
Don't believe them.
The only thing time heals is other people's memories. Surprisingly soon, they forget about your tragedy. They move on. They forget that your pain is as constant as your heartbeat.
Gift it time, they say. Things will get easier, they say. I can't remember how many times a well-intentioned family friend or a sincerely concerned observer assured me of this so-called "fact">
You'll get over it. You have a future. You'll be okay.
It's all a lie.”
― Keith Houghton

“What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't kill me made me into a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I CAN be okay. I don't know if I should be allowed to be okay.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus