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“…but there’s nothing romantic or pretty about a boy thinking about you the way you think about ‘c diff’.”

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” Aza (p.7)

August 1619

“Do you know how many men like you every single woman on the planet meets every day, who think that every thought in your tiny little male brains is a lovely present you can give us?”

“We can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to…be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”

“…when you run out of tears, when you can’t silence the voices no one else can hear, when you’ve never been in a room where you felt normal. In the end you get exhausted from always tensing the skin around your ribs, never letting your shoulder sink, brushing along with all your life with white knuckles, always afraid that someone will notice you, because no one supposed to do that.”

“An evil little creature that wouldn’t have shown up on any x-rays was living in her chest, rushing through her blood and filling her head with whispers, saying she wasn’t good enough, that she was weak and ugly and would never be anything but broken.”

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.