Cienna

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You are a light,” she replies gently. “And when you shine, you shine bright.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“But maybe, he thinks, maybe it isn't too late. Maybe he can pretend one more time, and this last bout of pretending will change things for him, will make him into the person he might have been.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart