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“Just because the stars fell doesn't mean they weren't worth wishing on.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships, I formed bonds with paper characters.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo