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had enjoyed the vague fantasy of raising powerful, forward-thinking young women with the courage to amount to more than their mother, but it was just that: a fantasy.
“She’s like a breath of fresh air.
I may be the Big Bad Wolf, but even wolves need to breathe.”
― If You Stay
I may be the Big Bad Wolf, but even wolves need to breathe.”
― If You Stay
“Love never fails.
But then again, sometimes love has to put boxing gloves on and be tough in order to survive. Sometimes, you have to do the harder thing—the thing where you let someone grow on their own.”
― If You Stay
But then again, sometimes love has to put boxing gloves on and be tough in order to survive. Sometimes, you have to do the harder thing—the thing where you let someone grow on their own.”
― If You Stay
“I was more myself with you during those three days than I’ve ever been with anyone in my life. It’d be easier if I could be fake with you, but you bring out everything in me, little Ann. All of it.”
― Sweet Peril
― Sweet Peril
“Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.”
― This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
― This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
“This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don’t know how to swim I can’t swim I can’t swim and it’s getting so hard. It’s getting so hard. It’s like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what’s the point of screaming if you’ll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.”
― Destroy Me
― Destroy Me
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