Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom Quotes

Souls aren’t discrete units — or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.

For everything about him fitting her fantasy image of what she wanted, she still didn’t feel seen by him…and that made her all the more aware that maybe her fantasy wasn’t what she wanted at all.

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.

There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.