“I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.”
“It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding”
“I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.”
“After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.”
“I've always avoided confrontation in the past, but this guy was flipping my bitch switch like nothing else.”
“Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.”