Fabienne

“I've seen what you can do when you are willing to fight for the people you love. Why not apply that same bravery and loyalty to yourself? Don't say you don't deserve it. [...] Everyone deserves happiness. The road there isn't easy. It is long, and hard, and often traveled utterly blind. But you keep going. [...] Because you know the destination will be worthwile.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“You are. I’ve seen it—I’ve seen what you can do when you are willing to fight for the people you love. Why not apply that same bravery and loyalty to yourself? Don’t say you don’t deserve it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“All the things I’ve done before—”
“Leave them in the past. Apologize to who you feel the need to,
but leave those things behind.”
“Forgiveness is not that easy.”
“Forgiveness is something we also grant ourselves.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.”
― Ernest Becker, The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man