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“I am more than my emotions, more than my depression and fear.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“It's lonely when no one worries about you. Not even your parents. You start to wonder what's wrong with you.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record