Penny

“You’re very …” he pauses, “distant, and guarded, and it seems like your eyes are closed to some of the beauty, the goodness, the joy that is life. It’s like you’re holding onto these old hurts and using them as an excuse to create new hurts, to keep people away.” I’m”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol

“Amy, are you still there?” I wasn’t sure why she was asking. Did she think I’d flushed myself down the toilet? The sad thing was that if it were a possibility, I might have considered it in that moment. Gone down the pipes and floated up again into a new life, with a new me and new parents and two new best friends.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“The me I’m working toward—the me who isn’t bitter, who doesn’t begrudge others’ happiness, who is joyful—I doubt she’d stay away from her brother this long, no matter what he’d done or what a little ass he was.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me