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“You can’t be a good friend to someone else unless you’re a good friend to yourself first.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“When we let tensions fester, or allow familiarity to pass for understanding, we tend to leave parts of ourselves out of our most important relationships.”
― Anna Sale, Let's Talk About Hard Things

“It’s not that she doesn’t believe in love. But seeing other people’s stories unfold always feels like watching a movie she would never have picked out for herself. Somewhere there must be a version that’s more like the films in her head, bright and colorful and unique.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, Field Notes on Love