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“A person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“When life gives you lemons, you get to choose what you make out of them; it doesn’t always have to be lemonade.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
― Brom, The Child Thief

“A part of growing up was accepting that you could be nice to others but shouldn’t expect that kindness to be returned. Being nice shouldn’t require a payment.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“It's a strange feeling, being vulnerable around someone who's both hurt you and tended to you.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“To defeat a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul. —Lana Myers”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“I had a temper. I got angry easily. But I had made myself learn how to control it. I had decided early on that I wasn’t going to let that emotion define me. I wanted to be better. I wanted to be a good person. I wanted to be someone—not necessarily someone great or someone important—but someone I could live with.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, i divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“...not all great acts of courage are obvious to those looking in from the outside.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Bad things don't happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn't work that way. It's just… life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway… to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I realized that people's reactions had more to do with them, more to do with who they were, than anything about me”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Pride is a lonely soldier, seeing out his watch when there’s no one else there to care.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“Because naming things humanizes them. And once you humanize something, you are essentially recognizing its existence.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“The only people in the world who can hurt you are those you let have that ability, Van.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“You couldn’t expect anyone to take care of you better than you could take care of you.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Sometimes the worst things you could ever hear were wrapped in sweet tones and calm voices.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Unhappiness prematurely aged a person, my foster mom had told me once.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“You don’t get to live your dreams by waiting around for someone to hand them to you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“You can’t always wait for someone else to do the right thing when you can do it yourself.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“My grandma had told me once you couldn’t make someone love you or even like you, but you could sure as hell make someone put up with you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“Being judged and found lacking by the people who were supposed to love you never left anyone feeling all right”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“It wasn’t until after you had a major regret that you understood the importance of not putting things off or being scared to do something about your problems.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder if there's nothing there to begin with.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“You never know when even a little bit of kindness might change someone’s life.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It