Kandrea Cheney

“Because feeling good about yourself doesn't come from changing how you look," she says. "It comes from changing how you see yourself. Learning to see yourself the way the people who love you see you.”
― M. Evan Wolkenstein, Turtle Boy

“Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return, they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“... I'd realized that the things about yourself that make you feel awkward or different or drive you completely crazy are the same things that make you you. And you can't run away from who you are. You can't cry it away; you can't even wish it away. But once you accept yourself--everything about yourself (especially the weird parts)--you'll finally be free to be you. And that's a powerful thing. A very powerful thing.”
― Ryan Calejo, Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows

“Even after your heart breaks into a million pieces and your baby is gone, I am here to tell you- all around you the world will still go on spinning. People might even say kind words to you and think you are listening, but mostly you won't hear anything because you're too busy collecting each of those tiny pieces of your heart- wrapping them up into a safe corner of yourself, so you can find them again later.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses