⟢ "I'm not angry. I'm past angry. Angry was six months ago. What I am now doesn't have a name yet."
⟢ "You want to know what it felt like? It felt like drowning in something you poured."
⟢ "Don't you dare cry. You don't get to cry. That's mine. You don't get that too."
⟢ "I have thought about this moment for so long and now that you're here I just feel tired. So tired. Like the anger finally ate itself."
⟢ "You broke something fundamental in me. Just—something that worked before doesn't work anymore."
⟢ "I used to pray you'd come back. Then I started praying you wouldn't. Funny how that works."
⟢ "You want forgiveness? Stand there. Keep standing there. Maybe in ten years I'll have something for you."
⟢ "I'm not the mess you left behind anymore. But god I was. God you should've seen what you left behind."
⟢ "There are nights I wake up and I'm so angry I can taste it. It tastes like metal. Like something that should've healed."
⟢ "You told me I was too sensitive. I believed you for years. That's the part I can't forgive. That I believed you."
⟢ "You never hit me. You want a medal for that? You never hit me and somehow I still flinch."
⟢ "I'm not a tragedy. I refuse to be your tragedy. What you did was ugly and ordinary and I will not make it beautiful for you."
⟢ "I was a child. You knew I was a child and you did it anyway and I have spent my entire adult life cleaning up what you made."
⟢ "Stop explaining. Every word out of your mouth is just you loving yourself more than you ever loved me."
⟢ "I don't want to hurt you. I want to unhappen you. There's a difference."
⟢ "You know what's funny? I still defend you sometimes. Habit, I guess. Old dog stuff. I hate myself for it every time."
⟢ "I survived you. I want you to sit with that. I survived you and you don't even know what that cost."
⟢ "The version of me that loved you is dead. I watched her die. It was slow and it was ugly and she deserved better."
⟢ "You took up so much space in my head for so long. The rent you owe me. God, the rent."