Mike

“Don't be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.”
― Saredo Ali

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
― Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“Sorry.

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut