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“Running away was not like it was in stories. People did not try and stop you. They did not give chase. The thing people didn't understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from. Most of the time it wasn't mothers or fathers or monsters or villains; most of the time you were running away from that little voice inside your head, the one telling you to stay where you are, that everything will turn out all right.”
― The Toymakers
― The Toymakers
“And maybe I will live a happier, wilder, more colourful and unpredictable life if I can finally abandon the debilitating and brutal pursuit of perfection. If I can learn to love butterflies from afar, and watch them fly away.”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
“Negativity always leads you to a dead end; you can crawl into the darkest, dankest corner, and though it is lonely and miserable, you know where the wall is, your back firmly pressed against it, and there is something wonderfully safe about that. When you choose positivity, on the other hand, you choose limitless potential, and whatever you look at with positivity grows and spreads and unfurls in a thousand different directions.”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
“One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.”
― A Conjuring of Light
― A Conjuring of Light
“Why don’t you worry in the other direction?’ she demanded, nailing me with her penetrating green gaze, which lovingly refused to ever let her students off the hook. ‘Why don’t you worry that it will all work out and you’ll meet all your creative matches and you’ll be too successful and too happy and too busy with how much work you have? Why must you always anticipate the absolute worst-case scenario, when you could worry that everything will just be too wonderful? Why do you do that? Why?’ Good point, I thought. Why do I?”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and the Glory of Growing Up
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