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“You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is doing in this moment, inflating and holding the air.”
― Candace Robinson, Hearts Are Like Balloons

“My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.”
― Candace Robinson, Hearts Are Like Balloons

“Cruelty is a human defect. Like racism and bigotry and homophobia and all that other shit that sometimes makes me ashamed to be human.”
― Jessica Redmerski, Everything Under The Sun

“You may be the only good thing left in this world, and I'll be goddamned if I let your light fade.”
― Jessica Redmerski, Everything Under The Sun

“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I should be used to it. But right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“But sometimes, it’d be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“Shazi,

I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.

Khalid.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Love is not the absence of logic
but logic examined and recalculated
heated and curved to fit
inside the contours of the heart”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

“Regrets are unacceptable, and a reversal of your decision is impossible because your desire today overpowers any future wishes.”
― Candace Robinson, Clouded By Envy

“The envy needs to cease, or it will destroy everything that is a part of you.”
― Candace Robinson, Clouded By Envy

“If you love someone, really love someone, you stand by them, even when they’ve screwed up. Especially then. You forgive them for their mistakes”
― Siobhan Davis, Loving Kalvin

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon