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“People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.”

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Book:She Drives Me Crazy

Source: She Drives Me Crazy

“Hannah,” Ms. Carpenter says softly. I think we all hide from God sometimes. We all have things we’re ashamed of. The essential thing is that you work through it.” “How am I supposed to do that?” Ms. Carpenter turns her head from side to side, her eyes glazed over in thought. “You refuse to be imprisoned by that shame. You realize that you are good – you are good because God made you – and you claim that goodness.”

Book:Her Name in the Sky

Source: Her Name in the Sky

“I think saying what you're afraid of makes you brave.”

Fear Bravery Young Adult

Book:Late to the Party

Source: Late to the Party

“Hannah looks through the windshield and begs the sky that her life will always be like this- large and loud and brimming with youth, but always followed by the quiet drive home and the promise of ending the night with her favorite person in the world.”

Happiness Teenager

Book:Her Name in the Sky

Source: Her Name in the Sky

“She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume, and more than anything, her very essence, her fire and her flaws and that steely determination to be better, to always be better.”

Basketball Christmas Sapphic Cheerleading Fake Dating

Book:She Drives Me Crazy

Source: She Drives Me Crazy

“A trickle of bile runs down my throat. "No one else seems to think that." "Who cares what anyone else thinks? What do you think?" "Thora, do you really believe that no one else's opinion matters? "Absolutely." She shrugs as if it's as easy as two plus two. "At the end of the day, I'm the only one living my life. Why should I answer to anyone else?" "You obviously don't remember high school very well." She snorts. "Of course I do. The unspoken social hierarchy sucks. But do you know what I've figured out since then?" She dances her fingers in front of my eyes. "It's all perception, Scots. Making people see what you want them to see. If you want them to think that you matter, start acting like they should already know that you matter.”

Other People S Opinions

Book:She Drives Me Crazy

Source: She Drives Me Crazy

“I’ve been where you are, Scottie. That kind of crazy, flesh-eating pain that consumes every part of you. I understand wanting to get back at them. Wanting their attention, even if it’s in a negative way. But the shitty thing is, that never helps you feel better. It just lands you in a worse situation, like towing the car of a perfectly nice girl who had nothing to do with the pain you’re in.”

Book:She Drives Me Crazy

Source: She Drives Me Crazy