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“Decide what’s worth your energy, because what you engage with is what you empower.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year

“He’d always wondered what the inside of the doll might look like. For some reason, he’d thought the cotton would be brown.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“A body could be labeled but a person couldn’t, and the difference between the two depended on that muscle in your chest. That beloved organ, not sentient, not aware, not feeling, just pumping along, keeping you alive.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Declare: I will no longer participate in my own suffering. If I have not one other friend in this world, I will be my own most loyal companion. I will not turn my back on myself. If I am loved by a dozen and not one, I will not focus undue attention on gaining the love of that one. I will speak to myself with compassion. I will not spend my life engaging in things that can only bring about my own unhappiness. From this moment on, I am on my own side.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year