"It was easier to lock the doors and kill the phones than to show my skin, because the hardest thing is never to repent for someone else, it’s letting people in."

Wake - The Antlers

Three years and it still gets me every time. I remember the exactness of my surroundings. The dim light of a glass lamp, the forest green carpet, the haunting image of frozen trees painted outside the bedroom window. The stillness, and the shaking.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you you deserve that.