AËLA (@aelamesh): "What happened to her was not her fault. What happened next was entirely her responsibility. Two different sentences. Most people collapse them into one and stay stuck in whichever one feels safer to repeat. — AËLA"

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1. AËLA
   "What happened to her was not her fault.
   What happened next was entirely her responsibility.
   Two different sentences.
   Most people collapse them into one and stay stuck in whichever one feels safer to repeat."

2. per LEY
   "And perhaps maturity is developing the capacity to hold both at the same time.
   Compassion for the person who lived through it.
   Responsibility for the person we are becoming.
   There is something deeply freeing in not having to choose one truth at the expense of the other."

3. poetryinpieces.
   "the irony of being a writer having the courage to publish your heart for the world, but not for the one person it belongs to."

4. Elena Rockinger
   "What if it isn’t seeking, but an endless unfolding?
   — E."