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“She blames herself. I hurt from knowing that I hurt her. Even when we know all of these other people are to blame. My friends. The media. Not her. Not me.

I can’t help myself. I continue the cycle and I say, “I don’t want to hurt you.”

Lily is quiet for a moment before she says, “I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.”

I do believe in fairies. I do. I do. The jubilant chorus from Peter Pan fills my ears.

I look up at her, tears in both our eyes. Is that how we end this? I trust that I can share my grief with her and that she won’t crumble beneath the pain?

She nods to me like go on. I can handle it.”
― Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie, Long Way Down

“My skill, if I have one, isn’t dancing. It’s my ability to believe that tomorrow can be a better day.”
― Erin Watt, Paper Princess

“We’re nothing. Were smoke - insubstantial and meaningless … We aren’t even a tragedy. We’re less than nothing.”
― Erin Watt, Broken Prince

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury