#relatable

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

#relatable #forgiveness

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#relatable #truth #life

If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#love