Eleanor

“What a wild idea, I realize, that it might have been possible for me to go through life simply appreciating what my body could do, not just how it looked.”
― Julia Spiro, Full

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“...all the things we do, every maladaptive behavior or pattern we have, is the result of a coping mechanism we learned in order to keep us alive or help us survive...I wasn't deceiving people because I was a piece of shit; I was doing what I had learned to do as a child to survive. And I was doing what worked. It just wasn't - let's say - a superhealthy or productive way to operate as an adult.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life