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“Intentional or not, I was being taught that my discomfort was unimportant and that the potential of upsetting another outweighed my own feelings.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

“The right person respects your boundaries and will never make you feel like they are too much.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them

“That wearing shiny shoes with bows on and rolling your eyes at other kids is not a sign of maturity, but a sign that you've missed a whole set of steps on the road to maturity.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart