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“I have that feeling I get sometimes around Trey, that there's a huge gap between how much you matter to a person and how much they matter to you.”

Friendship Relationship

Book:Conviction

Source: Conviction

“And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.”

Relationship Self Love

Book:Conviction

Source: Conviction

“But when I really think about it, I wonder if maybe it's more than that; maybe it's something that hits close to the deepest core of who I am. I'm not a religious person, but what I have with Harry is the closest thing I have - when I am with him is when the world is at its clearest for me.”

Ya Artists Family Life Chinese Americans

Book:Picture Us in the Light

Source: Picture Us in the Light

“Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me.”

Ya Immigrants Artists Chinese Americans

Book:Picture Us in the Light

Source: Picture Us in the Light

“And I believed him. It was genuine, that confusion, and that was the first time I really saw him, I think- when I understood that his social persona was concealing none of what I'd always thought it was, but actual kindness instead, that there was a kind streak at his core.”

Ya Immigrants Family Life Chines Americans

Book:Picture Us in the Light

Source: Picture Us in the Light

“In that moment, I saw myself as he saw me, I understood the shape I took in his life: I was, paradoxically, simultaneously too much and not enough. And all my life since then I had tried to rectify that. I had silently taken instructions on how to be better from everywhere I could glean them: when I was freshman and my locker was next to where a group of senior guys would laugh and murmur things about girls walking by (too much makeup; too small an ass; not enough makeup; too loud; kind of a bitch because she'd turned one of them down).”

Life Inspirational Women Self Esteem

Book:When We Were Infinite

Source: When We Were Infinite

“What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking to? To let the ugly emotions you harbored, your anger and dissatisfaction and irritation, seep into your words without censoring them.”

Anger Candor Hiding Feelings Being Open Making Yourself Small

Book:When We Were Infinite

Source: When We Were Infinite

“If nothing else there's a comfort in knowing someone's holding space in their own life for what's hurting you. That's the thing that makes life bearable sometimes, I think: that you can feel more than one thing at a time, that it floods into you from so many directions at once.”

Love Hurt Caring Feelings And Emotions

Book:Picture Us in the Light

Source: Picture Us in the Light