
I really think there are people who you will love forever, whether or not they remain in your life for that long.
“She looked like a mermaid perched on a rock;”— Margaret Atwood, from “The Edible Woman,” first published c. 1989
Sometimes you need to remind yourself that you were the one who carried you through the heartache. You are the one who sits with the cold body on the shower floor, and picks it up. You are the one who feeds it, who clothes it, who tucks it into bed, and you should be proud of that. Having the strength to take care of yourself when the world is trying to bleed you dry, that is the strongest thing in the universe.
“The moon once pulled blood from me. Now I pull silver.”— A. E. Stallings, from Archaic Smile; “Arachne Gives Thanks To Athena,”
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