Megan

“Okay,” she says, nodding. Then she gulps. God, this is not fair. I see myself in her. I see the steel wrapped in fear that all little girls find on the spike-strewn road to womanhood. I hate that this is where she finds it.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Life hurts. Love hurts. Maybe hurting is how you know it's working--like every healer's cure I've ever taken, the ache is how you heal. The pain is the whole point. This is how a person is alive, not numbed into nothingness. Not hiding and ignoring and twisting all that hurt into anger. Anger is heavy; sometimes, it doesn't serve.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically

“You can't know this yet. In fact, we rarely know it until it's too late to need to know it, but you are going to be just fine.”
― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap