Tracie Wallace

“We are and we aren’t. We try and we fail. We tell the truth and then we lie. We want to be a part of things so badly that we’ll pretend to be anyone to get into the room. And pretend to be someone else just to stay there. We want to be seen and we want people to guess. We want them to understand. We want to be forgiven. We forgive ourselves. We start again.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“I think it is very common to want to reinvent yourself, to push aside the versions of yourself you wish had made different decisions. Though we are who we are—and staying familiar with the different people you have been is always the way to move forward, to avoid the same mistakes. To become the happiest version of yourself.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“Did it ever occur to you that if you weren’t living in fear of other people’s opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine

“There was that word again. Curate. “And there is a cost to the people looking at that photograph and thinking that’s how their lives are supposed to be.”
― Laura Dave, Hello, Sunshine