Rebecca

“This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.
I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said I didn’t have a place on Earth—they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl

“that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“i have what i have and i am happy i’ve lost what i’ve lost and i am still happy - outlook”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey