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“I won´t let my scars define me. Not anymore. From now on, they´re a symbol of what I have left to fight for.”
― 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

“We’re not about cutting people out of our lives. We’re about refusing to accept anything less than what we deserve. About realizing that we’re all important here despite mistakes or bad relationships or lackluster careers.”
― 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