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“The cries of the other kids got louder: “The bus is on fire!”
“It’s going to explode!” and “We’re going to die!”
And I thought, They’re right. Yes, we’ll die. But it’s okay.
It’s fine. It is as it should be. We are going to die”
― Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14

“People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places