Caroline

“It’s surprisingly easy to pretend to be someone you’re not. Writers do it all the time; that’s how they write a story—pluck a character from the air and try her on for size. What I know now is that we’re all made up of stories, the ones we tell ourselves and the ones we tell each other. They’re the masks we wear every day, the personal histories we write and revise again and again, the futures we imagine, the images we project online, the narratives we construct in order to fit in.
Then there are the other stories, the stories we don’t tell, the ones we lock away within the hidden, dark rooms of ourselves—the secrets. Here’s what I also know now: secrets tend to seek the light.”
― Kathryn Williams, The Storyteller

“it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“You have to choose your own happiness, whatever that looks like. You can’t live your life for other people.”
― Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment

“We tend to think of life as linear. As if each moment, each year, has to be better than the last, and if it's not, we failed.So be patient with yourself, Josie. Don't judge yourself by any one moment. Allow yourself room to change”
― Shannon Hale, Kind of a Big Deal