Rachel

“Because we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“What makes you feel you’re not free?” he asks to the breathless audience. “Whatever it is that has you bound—whether that is a place, a time, or an outdated belief around a physical disability... Please don’t dwell there. Instead, seek out the things that do bring you freedom.”
― Lee Mi-ye, The DallerGut Dream Department Store

“Overcoming hardships in the past makes people who they are now: survivors and heroes. Our job is to make them realize that on their own.”
― Miye Lee, The DallerGut Dream Department Store

“And it didn't take long for him to realize that, having overcome the dream, his trauma was no longer a trauma, but a mark of his achievement.”
― Miye Lee, The DallerGut Dream Department Store