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“I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows