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“You exist. You matter. You have value. You have every right to wear your hoodie, to play your music as loud as you want. You have every right to be you. And no one should deter you from being you. You have to be you. And you can never be afraid to be you.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Almost no one ever notices it, but our thumbs are on sideways. The thumbnail faces away from the rest of the fingers.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“Who you are today . . . that’s who you are. Be brave. Be amazing. Be worthy. And every single time you get the chance? Stand up in front of people. Let them see you. Speak. Be heard. Go ahead and have the dry mouth. Let your heart beat so, so fast. Watch everything move in slow motion. So what. You what? You pass out, you die, you poop? No. (And this is really the only lesson you’ll ever need to know.)”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“I weighed my options: I could keep trying to convince her that I was serious about wanting her buy-in, or I could just accept the buy-in she’d already put on the table. I went with door number two.”
― Kyle Scheele, How to Host a Viking Funeral