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“The heels of the glittering monstrosities are nearly five inches tall, and the toes are so pointed that a normal human foot could never fill its proportions. “Am I supposed to wear those?” I ask. “Obviously,” my mother says. I’m reminded that this isn’t about what I want or what I like. It’s about what everyone else thinks is best, and I’m not sure how much more of this I can take.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“And you're not lost?"
"Maybe I am. But the difference is that I want to be found. I'm not happy pretending everything is fine when I know it's not."
"And just who is it that you suppose will find you?"
"It'll be me. I will find myself.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“She had her morals, the whole one or two of them that stubbornly clung to existence”
― Ashley Shuttleworth, A Dark and Hollow Star

“I don't want to be saved by some knight in shining armour. I'd like to be the one in the armour, and I'd like to be the one doing the saving.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead