The title says it all. It's amazing how much you can hurt and how far you can fall because of someone else, and how hopeless it seems at the time, only to rise from the ashes better, stronger, wiser than you were before. Not to mention the ability to laugh at things that would bother you before. You give people the power to hurt you. So you have the ability to close that door, lock it, then destroy it, so they can't even touch you again.

And sometimes that's just the way it has to be.

It just hurts.  A stone heart can break. Ever tried to put a rock back together when you break it? You can't. There's always pieces missing. A stone heart can bleed. Everywhere. Until everything is quiet, and world fades away to just your thoughts. Until those, too, sweep away. The will crumbles away with it. May the husk have better luck than the soul that was. And not be so stupid.