Zara

“To be fully seen like that. To be fully myself in front of someone else and not ashamed one bit. To feel proud actually.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“My simmering disquiet about my own existence had always found its focus in my physical form. I had spent a lifetime hating my appearance in the present and appreciating it in retrospect.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

“I didn't want to be saved from myself. Nobody does. All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“This is the challenge of life, isn’t it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Knowing what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once. There was also, in the front aisle nearest”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible