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“He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“I had spent my adolescence trying to blend in with my peers in suburban America, and had come of age feeling like my belonging was something to prove. Something that was always in the hands of other people to be given and never my own to take, to decide which side I was on, whom I was allowed to align with. I could never be of both worlds, only half in and half out, waiting to be ejected at will by someone with greater claim than me. Someone whole.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“he gathered me near his heart. I was full of faults; he took them and me all home.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“You did not come all this way to yield to despair.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns