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“You realize then that anger is safer than kindness, that isolation is safer than community. You shut everything out. Everyone. But some days, no matter what you do, the pain gets so bad you’d bury yourself alive just to make it stop.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.”
― Patricia Vanasse, Against All Odds

“I dedicated my life
to giving second—and third—chances to those who’d been
cast out by the world. You’d be stunned if you knew how
many people’s lives were derailed by a simple mistake that
snowballed, escalating beyond their control because no one
was ever there to offer a hand or even an hour of assistance”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“In the pain, I imagine bliss.
My thoughts are like wind, rushing, curling into the depths of myself, expelling, dispelling darkness.
I imagine love, I imagine wind, I imagine gold hair and green eyes and whispers, laughter
I imagine
Me
extraordinary, unbroken the girl who shocked herself by surviving, the girl who loved herself through learning, the girl who respected her skin, understood her worth, found her strength
s t r o n g
s t r o n g e r
strongest
Imagine me
master of my own universe
I am everything I ever dreamed of”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me