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“It is hugely important to learn to grow as a person by being honest with yourself about why you are struggling. Sometimes self-reflection is hard because you might feel uncomfortable with who you see in that reflection, but it is better to be honest with yourself than to punish yourself.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“You deserve to be truly and honestly you.”
― Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -"
She put her hand against his chest, just over his heart, and felt its beat against her palm, a unique time signature that was all its own. "I only wish you would not speak of dying," she said. "But even for that, yes, I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess