Julie

“I don’t really want to be cheered up,” she said. “I just . . . can you stand in the darkness with me?”
― Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Love was complicated. it didn't disappear because someone did something horrible, something you didn't agree with. it lived there, with the disappointment, the disapproval. you had to figure out how to hold both of them in your heart, or you'd love everyone, everything.”
― Jill Santopolo, More Than Words

“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library