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“I had built myself around what everyone else expected from me, defined myself by everyone else's comments on my appearance, my talent, my personality. I wanted to be seen for me, we all do. But first I had to see myself and understand what that meant – who this person was. I figured if I could love myself so unconditionally, with such certainty, it wouldn’t matter if anyone else did.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It: A Memoir

“I’d like to be the person who could take all of your sad things and make them happy. Like I’d hunt down each one and turn it over”
― Annabel Monaghan, It's a Love Story

“I didn’t want to die, but now I needed to figure out how to turn my life into one I wanted to live.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It

“She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is so much harder.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People