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"If you woke up tomorrow and your life was perfect, what would have changed overnight? And maybe, more importantly, how much of that do you already have control over?" - p. 208

"... They will not be swallowed, too." - p. 193

"When I stand in front of the portraits of people looking alone in dark rooms, draped in deep velvets or naked and cold, emerging from the depths around them to say, I am still here, it is pure hope. It is rebellion. It is the insistence that despite the swallowing background, the candlelit dungeon, or the gaping dark of a moonless forest, the subject still belongs. They are to be witnessed...

"The moments when life grabs me by the shoulders and demands that I rise to the occasion, asking me if I can do it, I remind myself that I can. Of course I can, because I'm my biggest fan. I'm sitting in the audience of my own preschool play, watching the toddling chaos of a little body trying, and smiling with a bouquet of flowers I can throw at the stage, no matter how far the result was from the plan." - p. 188

"If I am overwhelmed, I give myself permission to leave it until tomorrow and I bring myself to bed and rest." - p. 188

"Perhaps if we can prove there is nothing to be afraid of, we can stop making choices in avoidance of pain, and start making choices in pursuit of love." - p. 180

"Their beliefs about me are theirs, and I have no claim over them. All I can do is decide how I will treat myself." - p. 179

"I could still say that everything I did, I did to become the best version of myself and to do the most good that I could." - p. 165

"Life demands from us. It often demands too much, but you can't just die under a bridge, so you find a way to soldier through it. Even if it feels like you're barely even there." - p. 162

"Loneliness is more about wanting to be noticed than it is about wanting to have company." - p. 158