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“Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Because that was what we all did—we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.”
― Erin McCarthy, True

“You don't realize how small you really are until you're faced with something like that. We live our lives as if we're at the center of our own universe, but we're just tiny pieces of a shattered whole.”
― Cora Carmack, Finding It

“This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like you have to become a different person overnight, that growing up means being not you. And you concentrate so hard on living up to the term "adult" that you forget growing up happens by living, not by sheer force of will.”
― Cora Carmack, Finding It