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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they're only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Just because you're strong doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for help sometimes. Remember that.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“In real life, I constantly rework conversations after the fact in my head, edit them until I’ve perfected my witty, lighthearted, effortless banter—all the stuff that seems to come naturally to other girls. A waste of time, of course, because by then I’m way too late. In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“I'm so much more comfortable writing than saying things out loud. I wish I could live my whole life on paper.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Words are no less courageous for having been written rather than spoken.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Everything passes, Jessie. Remember that. What feels huge today will feel small tomorrow,”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Suddenly, everything seems irrevocably broken in that way it can in the middle of the night when you are alone.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“He's more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on his mind is somehow different from what goes on everyone else's. Even those close to us. And how you can't think about that for too long, because that thought- the truth of your own isolation- is too much to bear.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Not knowing the right thing to do is not an excuse for not doing anything.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“My fear of saying something stupid often leaves me saying almost nothing at all.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Maybe home doesn have to be a place.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“See, anxiety doesn’t just stop. You can have nice moments, minutes where it shrinks, but it doesn’t leave. It lurks in the background like a shadow, like that important assignment you have to do but keep putting off or the dull ache that follows a three-day migraine. The best you can hope for is to contain it, make it as small as possible so it stops being intrusive. Am I coping? Yes, but it’s taking a monumental amount of effort to keep the dynamite inside my stomach from exploding. The”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Sometimes things are going to happen and the only way out is through.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Your mind adapts to what worse is. Suddenly, that thing that seemed so terrifying at first is dwarfed by the next challenge that comes your way. But you adapt again and again and again, until you find yourself fearless.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“You’re brave, did you know that?’
He must have me mistaken for someone else. ‘You have all these fears, your body endures all this pain and heartache, but you keep going. I think that’s really brave.’
I shake my head. My mind is telling me that he’s wrong. Brave is swords and shields. People who are fearless in the face of adversity. Warriors for social justice. Brave is not me. But my heart registers the way he’s looking at me now, and my shoulders straighten. I feel shiny, normal.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“Worry is such a drama queen. It takes the smallest thing, makes it so big and bulky that you can’t see the obvious anymore.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“The clouds in her sky are always rose-colored, which I know is a beautiful way to be. Alas, I have a mind that muddies everything. My skies aren’t so pretty; more tainted with fear than tinted with whimsy.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“We can assume the best, but we can’t choose how people perceive us. We can, however, choose how those views affect us.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“When people say weird, what they really mean is different. And difference has never been a bad thing.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“I know it's irrational," I tell her, because I do know that. I know that you can't live your life waiting for disaster to strike. I know this. Hell, if we all lived like that, we'd stay stock-still our entire lives or be forced to roll around the streets in those giant plastic bubbles. But it's like my mind and my brain are two separate things, working against each other. I can't get them to cooperate.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“But it's like my mind and my brain are two separte thing, working against each other.”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places