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“Everyone’s path looks different,” she said. “Some people can get on a plane and get to their destination in a shorter amount of time. Others take a road trip all over before reaching where they want to be, and maybe they get in a fender bender on the way and they have to stop for a while. That doesn’t make it any less important to get to that goal. If anything, it provides life experiences the person on the plane didn’t get.”
― Jillian Liota, The Opposite of Falling

“Your mere existence is reason enough for you to be loved.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, Eastern Lights

“When the threat of death hung over you, you realized that your true dreams weren’t so grand. And they all came down to one thing—love. Material possessions and idealistic goals faded away like a dying star. Love was what remained. Life’s purpose was to love.”
― Tillie Cole, A Wish for Us

“Loneliness is a liar,” Graham told me, sitting down on the edge of his bed as he spoke. “It’s toxic and deadly most of the time. It forces people to believe they are better off with the devil himself than being alone, because somehow being alone means a person failed. Somehow being alone means a person isn’t good enough. So, more often than not, the poison of loneliness seeps in and makes a person believe that any kind of attention must stand for love. Fake love that is built on a bed of loneliness will fail—I should know. I’ve been alone all my life.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us