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… the title seems like it’s going to bite me on the ass later…

Reading this for Dymocks 101 list and super annoyed that it is the TWENTY FIFTH book in a series. Why can’t it be the first?

WHY IS THIS TAKING ME SO LONG

“The only way you can break this cycle is to be brave. You have to ignore your doubts and risk failure. You have to try to achieve something that seemed unachievable. This is the best recipe for confidence. And confidence is how we start giving ourselves permission to take up more space in the world, to want more for ourselves, and to feel as though we deserve it.”

“We either tell ourselves that we can or that we can’t. And these beliefs are a self-fulfilling prophecy, because we validate our doubts by giving up just as much as we embolden ourselves by refusing to give in.”

“I don’t know what to say. It’s like, saying thank you doesn’t really mean enough. It doesn’t do enough. It doesn’t really show you how much it means to me. I wish I could have tried to tell you while you were still here.”

“It means we must face the truth of who we are”
“Everything you have ever done and everything you will ever do... you must own it. Because you are those things. You carry those things with you.”

“Own all you carry, carry all you own”

“He said the only use for gold was to glitter, and he said the glitter of gold was like the glittering smiles of us white men he’d seen in town dressed in expensive clothes. He said that gold can’t be trusted. He said we all got the gold disease and it rots out hearts. It poisons us. He said it changes who we are, how we behave.”

“The more you go to that dark place inside you, the lighter it gets. You go there enough times, you realise that dark place is actually your sacred place. That place is all of you and the tears you take from that place are just the darkness leaking out, precious drop by precious drop.”

“Here’s to the untamed:
May we know them.
May we raise them.
May we love them.
May we read them.
May we elect them.
May we be them.”

“The point is that if we can find good in those we’ve been trained to see as bad, if we can find worth in those we’ve been conditioned to see as worthless, if we can find ourselves in those we’ve been indoctrinated to se as other, then we become unable to hurt them.”

“My only expectation is that you become yourself. The more deeply I know you, the more beautiful you become to me”
💕My favourite quote so far. What a stunning way to feel about someone.

“I love how our life together is one eternal conversation that we put on pause only to sleep.”

I will only promise to show up, as I am, wherever I am. That’s it, and that’s all. People will like me or not, but being liked is not my One Thing; integrity is. So I must live and tell my truth. Folks will come around or quit coming around. Either way: lovely. Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself

“Let’s help our boys become adults who don’t have to carry life alone.”

“there is no such thing as masculinity or femininity. ”Femininity”is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label “feminine”. Gender is not wild, it’s prescribed.”

“When we are little girls, our families, teachers, and peers insist that out loud voices, bold opinions, and strong feelings are “too much” and unladylike, so we learn to not trust our personalities.”

“I was wild until I was tamed by shame. Until I started hiding and numbing my feelings for fear of being too much. Until I started deferring to others advice instead of trusting my own intuition.”

“The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor”

“I think you have so much power within you that it scares you, and that you make yourself small on purpose because you don’t know what you’ll become if you ever stop”

UGH! Harry is such a moody teenager at the start of this book 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had forgotten.

Good luck following Red White and Royal Blue

YAS DORIAN #myking 🧡

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

RHYS 😭 literally bawling my eyes out after his speech. He is too perfect for words 💔 I will be broken beyond repair if he dies.

RHYS 😭 literally bawling my eyes out after his speech. He is too perfect for words 💔 I will be broken beyond repair if he dies.

Literally tearing up because I LOVE Rhys and Feyre so much 😍 They have such a beautiful relationship ❤️ so tender and sweet, yet willing to call each other out and support each other. Just love each other, no matter what. Serious #couplegoals GUSH GUSH.