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how to understand your style and the advice was basically like ‘make your outside match how you feel on the inside’
She was a confident person. But like all confident people, it was only about 87 percent authentic. Doubt just lived on the outskirts of town instead of in the center, like it does for everyone else.
It’s like you hold me steady, but without holding me still.”
most things in life are conveyed without using precision, which is why I loved books so much. The people in them were scared and rarely said what they meant, but the best authors used words like swords to slice through it all.
silence terrifies people. I’m always noticing the little ways society protects us from the menace of silence,
Love didn’t always mean staying.
people are always building a web of lies around a kernel of truth and calling it honesty—it’s
so many of our instincts as humans are toward self-sabotage.
we’re all so much more, and less, than our best, or worst, moment,”
We were in this thing together, she and I. Even though we weren’t, we still were. That will make sense if you’ve had a friend who could look at you from across the room and make you laugh.
“The trick of life, as I see it now, is to make what’s around you beautiful. It’ll grow from there.
“Don’t let that brain of yours trick you: you’re not nervous, you’re excited.”
