Candice

“You’ve always been my independent one. You hold in so much. You aren’t who anyone decides you are. You aren’t how anyone treats you. You have to find peace in that. It’s not easy, but you do.”
― Aminah Mae Safi, Not the Girls You're Looking For

“I don’t want the void. I don’t want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .”
― Rich Shapero, Wild Animus

“Take yourself in. Ask the questions no one ever asked you. Keep going until you know the answer and you know who's asking. Until you realize- it's not far away- that the essence of you, like the sky, was always here. You just happened to get distracted by the local weather for a few decades.”
― Geneen Roth, This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

“The freedom to dissociate from people, ideas and ways of life you're not compatible with is one to cherish. That simple choice to walk away empowers the free being to pursue contentment.”
― Innocent Mwatsikesimbe