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Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

Cecília Meireles, from "In Autumn, My Heart," featured in Antologia poética

“Not everyone who comes into our life is meant to stay. So stop holding onto people who clearly don’t want to be with you.”

— Unknown

“You don’t ﬁnd your worth in someone. You ﬁnd your worth within yourself and then ﬁnd someone who’s worthy of you. Remember that.”

— Unknown

“How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour

“You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.”

— Unknown

“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

— Unknown

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assaad

“Apply for that job. Date that person. Buy that plane ticket. Move to that city. Do all the things that scare you, because they’re worth it.”

— Unknown

“I hope that you never, not even for one second, become a secondary character in your own story.”

— spanish teacher

“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

Wow, that escalated quickly.