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I Am Not Jessica Chen

by Ann Liang (Goodreads Author)

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Calista’s Quotes

“Confidence comes from knowing that whatever the situation, you know you'll make the best of it. Confidence is certainty in your ability to rise.”
― Lucy Score, Maggie Moves On

tags: confidence

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“Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

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“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.”
― Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

tags: courage, extraordinary-people, openness, ordinary-people

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“You make broken things whole again. Me. You made me whole. And every time you smile at me, I feel like I hit the lottery again.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

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