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“The alternative to cruel optimism- telling people a simplistic story that sets them up to fail - isn’t pessimism, the idea that you can’t change anything. It’s authentic optimism. This is where you honestly acknowledge the barriers that stand in the way of your goal and establish a plan to work together with other people to dismantle those barriers, step by step.“

“Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner. How different it is with friendship…The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.”

“Kids in foster care aren’t bad kids. Just good kids in bad situations”

“..her mind exploded with the realization that, as the cliché goes, life changes in an instant, that right when you think you know what’s next, how your life will be, something can happen to change it dramatically. The very reason to live and keep on living.”

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive— it's such an interesting world… But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult."

I love Anne’s stubbornness, her positivity and wild imagination lol.

“I’m almost just another office worker. One of the thousands of women I pass in the metro every day whose lives I imagine to be empty and sad. A permanently tired person, always fatigued, insipid, who uses the metro stops of her daily commute as an oasis of escape in which to imagine a better life or lose herself in books about other, better lives.”

“Often, I find myself wondering: What is it like to live freely, to live a life untethered, without having to be responsible for everyone around you?”