It’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A society has no chance of success if it’s women are uneducated…
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
Rumi
Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I’ve been friendly. I’ve been frightened. I’ve been fake. But I’ve never been fierce. I’ve been frustrated. I’ve been forgotten. I’ve been forgiving. But I’ve never been fierce. I wanna be fabulous. I wanna be flamboyant. I wanna flaunt what I’ve got. I want to be fierce.
Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
He’s a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.
Tara Westover, Educated
I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
Cecelia Ahern, Where Rainbows End
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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