“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland
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