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“You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other”

“When the moment shifts, and you realize you don't actually want to be alone, that underneath the bravado is an ache that won’t quite fade away, you’re not only aware of how lonely you are, but how much you've been lying to yourself.”

“I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every kind, besides which I was awkward, geeky, and shy. So I ate alone, telling myself that it was fine while I watched other people have normal conversations with their friends.”

“I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.”

“Some people do not want you to grow and succeed because they like looking down on you. As long as their life was better than yours they felt good about themselves, it made them feel superior. However, all that changes once you know your worth and being to understand your greatness. They feel threatened and will do and say anything to keep you down which is why you need to be careful of the advice you receive.”

“Some people do not want you to grow and succeed because they like looking down on you. As long as their life was better than yours they felt good about themselves, it made them feel superior. However, all that changes once you being to know your worth and understand your greatness. They feel threatened and will do and say anything to keep you down which is why you need to be careful of the advice you receive.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes," Annika says. In theory, yes, but in this case I'm pretty sure Sherry's boss has the power to say both. "What's that?" Sherry says. She sounds hesitant, as if she's not sure where this is going. "It's a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt," Annika says. "Are you familiar with them?" "I know a few," Sherry says. "My best friend bought me a book of them. 'Do one thing every day that scares you' is what got me through my twenties. 'Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Energetically, I am large. There is an informational or energetic field around me, inside of which I live. It’s about the size of the dwelling where I reside. That’s why I am not quite comfortable when people are constantly wandering inside my field.”

“Everyone thinks they're entitled to their 15 minutes of fame. And it's that narcissism that makes people, who have no business writing a book, think they can write a book.”

“if you've ever been to an old-timey museum, you've seen those silly portrait paintings that vain noblemen of by-gone eras used to plaster all over the walls of their pompous mansions. Today, thanks to social media, people can take pointless pictures and pollute the world with their dumb shit faster than ever before. Progress!”

“People who have absolutely nothing interesting or unique to say think writing a book will make them interesting. They think when they tell people "I'm a writer" it sounds cooler than if they say "I clean houses for a living.”