Laura

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.”

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired.”

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”

“I am not what happened to me. I am who I choose to become.”

““I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.””

“These scars are my documentation of the mistakes I’ve made in trying to overcome them. I am both the things I’ve done to myself and the things done to me. Along these nerve endings, you will find a history of me.”

“If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. Because in relationship with others … the other is nothing but a mirror.”