If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)

by Julie Murphy

the family you choose is just as meaningful as the one you’re born with.

“I think fairy tales might be more like cautionary tales than anything else. And fate is just an excuse for people to be inactive participants in their own lives.”

I don’t believe in fate. I can’t. I refuse to believe that first Mom and then Dad dying was part of some grand scheme. If that’s true, whatever’s at the end of my rainbow isn’t worth what it will have cost me.

Don’t you see how belittling this is! I’m not brave for wearing a dress. I’m just living!

queer people deserve to have their bad romantic decisions documented for the whole country to consume, too.

The truth, though, is that clothing is fashion and fashion should be for everyone because clothing should be for everyone.

Don’t be a hostage to duty or obligation. I didn’t carry you and birth you and raise you to waste your precious life on anything except unbridled joy. Choose joy.

The best part about crossing any bridge is the chance to look back and be able to fully understand where you came from. You’re not a machine. You’re not a computer. You’re an artist, and any good artist knows life feeds into art and art feeds into life.”