Extraits

For everyone who’s ever been told they’re ‘too much’— Go ahead and burn as brightly as you want to.

Then he said, “There isn’t an easy, direct translation into any other language…because it’s more like an idea. A feeling. We have a story in my old kingdom, that when the one you’re meant to be with enters the world, they steal a part of your soul with their first breath. “And you exist, missing that part, until they find you and breathe it back into you.

Sometimes we hold on to painful things, I think, because letting them go feels like letting go of the person who gave them to us.