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Breakups are hard and dealing with the feelings and emotions afterword are even harder.

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I think it’s important to realize that we continue onward and upward regardless of the past and though our futures are unknown and unwritten, don’t forget that when nothing is certain, anything is possible.

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We forget that every day we’re lifting our head from the pillow counts as something. We forget how strong we truly are.

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You heal—one piece, one fragment, one crack at a time—because you can, because you deserve to.

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You cannot rush the reconstruction of a heart.

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Don’t try to make your ugliness pretty. Don’t try to turn heartbreak into something picture-perfect. It sucks. And it’s okay that it sucks.

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Someone’s perception of you is not your identity.

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I wanted to find your lips in the half light, to drink you in, shed the sheets and wrap myself in you.

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Missing him does not mean that you still love him.

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There are corner coffee shops with mugs in every shade of feeling where you will read the paper and pretend that you’re in Paris or Spain and sip too strong coffee as you learn to be alone.