Such Sharp Teeth

When you're anxious, if you name three things you see, three sounds you hear, and then move three parts of your body, it's supposed to calm you down. The 3-3-3 rule.

Understanding someone and accepting them are two different things. One doesn't guarantee the other.

Denial is hard to sustain. It requires constant effort. The truth might not be pleasant, or logical in this case, but it's easy.

Bad things have a way of severing your life into "before" and "after". It's really annoying.

When you're young, you're oblivious to what is rare because you don't have enough experience to identify it. A diamond is just a rock until you hold it up to the light.