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“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“We’re products of our choices.”
― Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

“Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.”
― Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback

“Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world answer, right?”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place to buy him a little more time in the world, I'd have done it. I'm sorry I couldn't.”
― Trish Doller, Something like Normal

“Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”
― Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”
― Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain

“It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”
― Alyson Noel, Saving Zoë

“I've already lost a piece of my mind. I can't trust you with what's left.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Maybe it’s time to find a new normal.”
― Trish Doller, Something like Normal

“It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.”
― Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir

“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”
― Leila Sales, Past Perfect

“Nothing made me the way I am. Nothing but me.”
― Amy Reed, Clean

“Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.”
― Clementine von Radics

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Be the person you were so I can be the person you made me.”
― Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire

“I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.”
― Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.”
― Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

“You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.”
― Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

“What if talking about your feelings doesn't fix anything? What if what you really need is to make the feelings go away?”
― Amy Reed, Crazy

“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for my real self, like someone could just reach over and pinch me and I'd deflate. I thought I was feeling better, but I don't know anymore.”
― Amy Reed, Crazy

“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.”
― Laura Wiess, Leftovers