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“I want to find self-worth without needing it to come from someone's approval.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

“She's made of the stories she has read.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“But there isn't a single word in the universe that you can think of that would describe the way you feel right now.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You can’t put your life on hold for somebody else, you know? Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Now, as then, I don’t know if I fully understand what happens in the novel, but I loved it anyway. Isn’t that strange? To love something you can’t fully grasp?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Because when we talk about addiction, we have to talk about collateral damage: the mental health of the kids and adults surrounding the addict. How do you live when your life has been upended by someone else’s health crisis? When you feel guilty about wanting to go to a dance, or be kissed, or go away to college, because right next to you, someone else is suffering?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Books are good. I can live life safely and without peril in a fictional universe.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“All superheros were sad kids. The sadness made them strong and then they rose up and helped people.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

“Just because something seems impossible doesn´t mean that you shouldn´t try.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I cut because I can't deal. It's as simple as that. The world becomes an ocean, the ocean washes over me, the sound of water is deafening, the water drowns my heart, my panic becomes as large as planets. I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“The enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I've always felt like I desperately needed to say my feelings out loud - to form the words and get them out of me, because they've always felt like dark clouds in my head that contaminate everything around them.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

“I'd rather have an ugly face than an ugly heart.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Starfish

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs