Melissa Ang

“You can look at my life and say there’ve been some real tragedies, and there have been. But there’ve also been some exquisitely beautiful times. To me, those far outweigh the others.”
― Ellen Bass, Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.”
― Ellen Bass, Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars