TikTok slideshows have become a sensation in past few years and have taken the hearts of melancholic teens. They perfectly encapsulate the feelings of growing up as well as relationships with parents or partners. If you are ever needing a good cry sesh, check out these slideshows! These are my favorite quotes that I have found.

10. “Mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: I am all you could have been and you are all I might be.”

9. “Sometimes in the middle of despair, there is agony so sweet it starts to rot you from the inside out.”

8. “You did exactly what you knew I was scared of. I wish you didn’t know me the way you do.”

7. “A man’s heart can be a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.”

6. “Do not assume that just because my exterior is cold, hard, and cracked, that I do  not thirst for kindness. Perhaps it is the lack of such that has made me this way.”

5. “You possess a piece of my soul. I’ll never be able to get it back.”

4. “You are made of dreams and this world is just not for you.”

3. “We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.”

2. “And at some point, I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

1. “I know love like mine exists because I exist.”