A U D R E Y🐱

"You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be."

"You are a garden. Just because your flowers have been stepped on by other people but that doesn’t mean that new flowers can’t grow. Just because your flowers died from lack of sun, doesn’t mean new buds are unable to grow."

"When I look back on that time, it’s with the strangest stew of emotions:
love, loving, terror, horror, regret,
and the deep sweetness only those who’ve been near death can know.
I think it’s how Adam and Eve must have felt.
Surely they looked back at Eden, don’t you think,
as they started barefoot down the path where we are now,
in our glum political world of bullets and bombs and satellite TV?
Looked passed the angel guarding the shut gate with his fiery sword?
Sure. I think they must have wanted one more look
at the green world they had lost,
with its sweet water and kind-hearted animals.
And its snake, of course."

"is there anything she can’t handle? she’s been broken. she’s been defeated. she felt pain that most couldn’t handle. she looks fear in the face; year after year, day after day, but yet she never runs. she never hides. and she ALWAYS finds a way to get back up. she’s unbreakable, she’s a warrior. she’s you"