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Focus on the good things, even when they’re simple. Then bury them deep so only you know where they are.
If you can’t beat ’em, you just have to survive ’em. Play the hand you’ve been dealt until you get a better one.
You can find hope in the strangest of places, in the darkest of corners. Clutch it close, my darling. It’s yours and no one else’s. Lemon Fair, the Queen of Meringue
Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they’d been assigned by others or by ourselves. I’d felt damaged and ruined once, but I didn’t anymore. I was still a work in progress, but I wasn’t a victim. I was a survivor.
with your gut. You might not be right every time, but you’ll never regret following your own heart, especially one as pure as yours.
“It’s not the things you do with love and good intentions that you end up regretting. It’s the things you don’t do that you have to live with.
I know it hurts, but your body knows how to heal. And so does your heart.
sometimes that’s all hope is—just a thin sliver of distant light.
“I don’t create beauty, Eloise, I just reveal what’s already there.”
Maybe it was the same reason I loved anything I loved: because it spoke to my heart and my soul. Maybe it was nothing that could be explained and nothing that needed explanation anyway.
You were given this pain because you’re strong enough to endure it.
How strong did your mind have to be—how beautiful your heart—to hold on in such a way? To choose love over fear again and again?
