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“And maybe that's the secret: Maybe we do go in circles, but they're orbits, created by the gravity of our hearts and hopes, and so if we stay true to ourselves, we will face the same situations again, but each time we come around, we know more, we've grown, learned, and this time we can get it right, or at least a little better.”
― Kevin Emerson, Exile

“Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.” Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.”
― Donald Antrim, The Verificationist

“There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.”
― Bethany Crandell, Summer on the Short Bus