Rags2Rubies

She/her pronouns, homoflexible demisexual. I support BLM, LGBT+, mental health awareness, and coffee at any time of day. Rachel’s quotes Goodreads Quotes

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Magnus Archives Scarf Pattern Now Available!

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Do you ever think about the pharaoh's wife?

Do you ever wonder what it was like on the day she lifted the basket from the river? Do you think she understood right away, or did it take her a moment? Do you think she looked around, trying to see past the reeds and brush? Do you think she caught a glimpse of a figure crouching low on the banks? Do you think she turned to make sure no one was watching before giving the smallest nod in that direction? Do you think the figure held that nod in her heart on the hard days?

Do you ever wonder if we told the story wrong?

The story of a man chosen and protected by God has always been about the choices of two mothers to stand against the whole world.

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I grew up walking on red hot coals,

and now there is no bridge I can cross

that does not burn behind me.

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I can feel myself starting to zoom out, to fall backward. I'm watching my fingers type this through eyes that have become windows, trapped behind the prison bars of my teeth, screaming with a voice that's not mine.

I know I don't look any different. If anyone were to look at me, they'd see me sitting at my computer typing just like always. Nothing wrong, nothing strange.

They wouldn't see me rocking and shaking in the darkness of my mind, hugging my knees and desperately wishing someone would come let me out. I'm lonely and I'm scared and I don't know how I got trapped here. Why doesn't anyone come?

But they won't come. Why would they?

They don't even know I'm in here.

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I swear, I'm trying....

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Maybe the way I will be best loved is as a memory

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She had become so used to being tolerated that when death beckoned, she ran to him simply for the novelty of being wanted.

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“Love when you’re ready not when you’re lonely.”

— Unknown

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But what if you are always lonely?

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“A year ago, you did not know today. You did not know how you’d make it here. But you made it here. By grace, you made it here.”

— Morgan Harper Nichols

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“The ones who notice the storm in your eyes, the silence in your voice and the heaviness in your heart are the ones you need to let in.”

— Steve Maraboli

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“I’ll never be able to look at your face without loving you.”

— Rachel Wolchin

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“The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.”

— Gene Amole

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I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

Jackie Robinson (via quotemadness)

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I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it – and that’s all I’ve got.

Sabrina Ward Harrison (via quotemadness)

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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Kurt Vonnegut (via quotemadness)

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Victor Hugo (via quotemadness)