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"Maybe, against all odds, my biggest problem is that—I'm normal?
Everybody is always still trying to learn, day after painful day, how to be themselves.
I can't wait."

"Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you."

"Before we examine our masks and learn to take them off, we must first recognize that the version of ourselves we've been hiding from the world is somebody we can trust."

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

"Hope. That was enough. That was everything."

"Life breaks us, then we fill the cracks with something stronger."

"You are normal, or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind."

"I've never known perfection, but I should think it boring if I did."

“You told me it would get worse.” “It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again."

"Kaladin’s anxiety began to subside, and he pushed through the worst of the darkness. He always emerged on the other side. Why was that so difficult to remember while in the middle of it?"

"You don't have to smile. You don't have to talk. But if you're going to be miserable, you might as well do it with friends."