“You tell me I am strong and brave. Tell me nothing could ever shake or break me. Nothing could ever take my spirits, and I smile at you to prove you right. You didn't see inside me, so it's best to keep it that way. I show few people genuine feelings, and even fewer my thoughts. You could look at me and say, 'She's fine. Let it go.' And I would probably wave and maybe even laugh. But I am still human. I still have feelings and a past, but I've buried it all too deep to cry over it now. Besides, crying never did anyone any good. So if I lost someone now, you could take a picture of me and I'd smile. But darling, I am irreparably broken, and I continue to fall apart. But you just keep believing I'm strong, because that is what I'll use when I go back to the battle field of life again; I'll tell myself to believe that I'm strong, remain that way, and I will do my best not to let you down.”
Quote by Lillian Michelle Frazier
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