Cay

“We all have scars.” Nathaniel looked him straight in the eyes. “Only some of us wear ours on the inside. They don’t change who we are, only who we might’ve been. They change the way we see the world around us. People like you and me, we know bad things happen. We know what real pain is, and we know that sometimes there really is a monster under the bed. We don’t have the luxury the rest of the world does. We can’t pretend those things aren’t real, that life is all sunshine and rainbows. We know different, we’ve seen too much to believe otherwise. Wear your scars as a badge of honor. They show the world you were strong enough to survive. Don’t let them make you feel like you need to hide.”
― Lynley Wayne, Scars

“Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife.”
― Noelle Adams, Salvation

“He took your sweet, funny, perfect heart... and he destroyed it. Why do you keep letting him do it over and over again?”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me