Teri

“You aren’t like anything or anybody else, even if you are similar. Similarity isn’t sameness. No one is the same as you. Number 1.0000001 is very, very close to 1, but it still isn’t a true 1. Only 1 is 1. And only you are you. There is no one like you. You are not an almost-you, or a kinda-you, or a sorta-you. You are one of a kind, fully and uniquely you!”
― Pavel G. Somov, The Lotus Effect: Shedding Suffering and Rediscovering Your Essential Self

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I am always astonished at how so much writing about old movies assumes that the audience believed everything in them. Of course we didn’t. We entered into the joyful conspiracy of moviegoing.”
― Jeanine Basinger, A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960