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“She said to the women, Leave your pain here and go out and do your magnificent things. I didn’t know instructions like this were possible.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“But living is an incredible thing, just to have been here, to have felt, if only briefly, the volume and depth of others' empathy. I wrote, most of all, to tell you I have seen how good the world can be.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“I used to shrink at harsh tones, used to be afraid. Until I learned it takes nothing to be hostile. Nothing. It is easy to be the one yelling, chucking words that burn like coals, neon red, meant to harm. I have learned I am water. The coals sizzle, extinguishing when they reach me. I see how, those fiery coals are just black stones, sinking to the bottom.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name