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But that doesn't really matter because fixing the weirdo teeth isn't what makes them okay. What makes them okay is knowing you have them. And being totally cool with it. Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

All improvements, transformations, achievements, liberations; everything you want to change about yourself and your life; everything you want to make happen, any obstacle you want to overcome, any crisis you must survive -- the prerequisite is being able to allow yourself to feel whatever it is you feel and not pretend to feel something you don't.

In fact, you can be a very honest person and yet not be living a truthful life. And not even realize it.

Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief.

Finally, trained researchers in white lab coats with clipboards and cages filled with monkeys had demonstrated in a proper clinical setting what I myself had learned several years earlier in a rehab setting: affirmations are bullshit.

"I feel like I'm supposed to say something smart now. Something wise. Like how it's all for the best or how it'll be okay, but those things aren't smart or wise. They're just things to say."

"Does this feel like home?" Cal asks.

"Yeah, it does." My fingers play with her hair and make little circles on the top of her shoulder.

"Which part the most?" she says. "The water? The pier? The gritty hot dogs?"

"No," I say. "This. You right here, with me, beside me. That feels like home."

"Then I feel his hand brush against mine and suddenly we're holding hands. Forget writing and tying my shoes and flipping ribs and pulling my hair back in a ponytail. Forget all of the things that I thought my hands were for before. It's almost like after today if I look at my hands, I am going to wonder why it looks so bare, so empty."

"I think you want to be beautiful in someone's eyes, you want to be seen. Life if I shot off fireworks and no one was there to watch them, and I closed my eyes. They become beautiful in being seen, and maybe you're not supposed to think of people that way, but I do. You don't have to be beautiful to be seen, you just have to be seen as beautiful, by someone, by one person."

I don't want this book to end.

hiatus -- I'm having a really hard time connecting with the main character in this book.

"I’m sorry." *sob*

Giggling... "This is my story. It's a little low on ponies, but I still think you'll like it."

"It is important that you not believe your own publicity. Be grateful for whatever praise you receive, but take it with a grain of salt."