"You Better Be Lightening" by Andrea Gibson

I know most people try hard 

to do good and find out too late
they should have tried softer.

Every day of my life

I have disqualified myself from any number of things at which I might excel only because I’ve been convinced fat people aren’t allowed, and I’m fat. Who would I be if I could more often dismiss that lie? What betterment might exist in the world if we all stopped spreading the lie that fat people are less than?

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"Into The Water" by Paula Hawkins

Part of me wanted to have a conversation with you, but not before you told me that you were sorry, not before you begged for my forgiveness. But your apology never came, and I’m still waiting.

alhwrites

you are the most permanent thing in your life. always. that won’t change. ever. so put you first. prioritize you. choose you. you, you, you. your needs, your wants, your dreams, your feelings, your happiness, your peace. never sacrifice any of that, and do not spend your entire life treating people who might be temporary better than you treat yourself.

"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara

Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.