Realize that you can achieve it. There is nothing different about you, and the only person who can make you smoke that next cigarette is you. There is absolutely nothing to give up. On the contrary, there are enormous positive gains to be
  
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      “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    
― Coraline
  ― Coraline
 
      “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    
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      “The things we do to girls. Whether we put them on pedestals only to tear them down, or use them for parts and holes, we're all complicit in this. But everything touches everything else, and I have to believe that some good will come out of all this destruction.”
    
― The Grace Year
  ― The Grace Year
 
      “If only I could rewind, go back in time and ask my mother every question about every tiny thing. How crucial those little fragments are now; how great their absence. I should have saved them up, gathered them like drops of water in a desert. I’d always counted on having an oasis.”
    
― The Astonishing Color of After
  ― The Astonishing Color of After
 
      “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
  ― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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