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“All you have to do is today,
You belong here as much as anyone.
I feel like he’s preparing us to go to battle, like Haymitch to our Katniss.
“People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they’re just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don’t realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they’re shitty because they’re afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it’s like self-defensive shittiness.”
“Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you’re hunting yourself.”
‘You can’t stop living.’
Except that only small people—the inside-small kind—don’t like you to be big.
You never really understand a person until you consider
things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it…
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it’s as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.
It’s her. Always. It’s the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I’m awake.
Two hours later, when I get back in the Land Rover, it still smells like her. Sunshine.
The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon.
“Libby Strout, you deserve to be seen.”
I am magic.
But why should what I weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I’m sitting on them, who cares?
Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead?
YOU ARE WANTED. Big, small, tall, short, pretty, plain, friendly, shy. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself.
