elnd of a friendship: julia jacklin // fleabag: season 2, episode 4 // the place where she inserted the blade: black country, new road // little weirds: jenny slateove without a place to go
You may know how to offer calm words, how to notice when someone needs a softer answer, how to make room for another person's uncertainty without making them feel foolish. But when the need is yours, the same mercy can be harder to grant.
She had nowhere she could call her own, not even within the walls she spent her life keeping upright. She cleaned until her hands forgot they belonged to her. She swallowed every grief before it could stain the floor she had just mopped.