Amanda

“Because I am still learning to walk and talk, and it is a million times easier to be cynical and wield a sword, than it is to be open-hearted and stand there, holding a balloon and a birthday cake, with the infinite potential to look foolish.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Even if you deliberately choose to do a "wrong" thing, you're choosing it, which means you've picked it as the right thing to do.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
― Anais Nin