Your ancestors don’t deserve love—yours or anyone else’s. * Stop interpreting every non-kiss, non-cuddle, & non-date as abandonment. * You don’t get to resent your chores when you were the one who made the mess. * The sooner you stop assuming every domestic task will turn into a * Stop carrying on about the love letters you never sent. The sea lions ate them for breakfast. * Lean so far into your depression that you manage to fall through it & into a giant, glimmering ball pit. * Stop telling everyone that sad songs make you happy when in fact they make you time-travel. * * Replacing your memories with a basket of pomegranate seeds is always a good idea. * Think before you shoot that burning arrow into the past. Your future-
* good without saying the word me. * First person POV has eaten your brain & tangled all of your arteries. *
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