Shaina
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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...”
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
― The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.”
― Hawthorn Road
― Hawthorn Road
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