The Bodyguard

by Katherine Center

You have to be willing to step in front of a bullet—and that’s no small choice, because some of these people are not exactly lovable—and getting shot hurts. It’s high stakes and high stress, and if you’re going to do it right, it has to be about something bigger than you.

it’s just objectively hard to worry about anything when you’re getting a piggyback ride.

People loving you for your best qualities is not the same as people loving you despite your worst.”

I’m going to try thinking about what I can carry forward. What I can hold onto. Not just only always what I have to leave behind.”

any of us really lovable if you overthink it?

I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it—whatever it was—and then making yourself follow through.

Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.

giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”

loving somebody—really, bravely, just all-in loving somebody—is a doorway to something divine.

we should all just know our own inherent worth, and see our own particular beauty, and root for ourselves wherever we go.

The people we love help teach us who we are. The best versions of who we are, if we’re lucky.