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“there are miracles in me
waiting their turn to happen
i am never giving up on myself”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“To be groomed is to be loved and handled like a precious, delicate thing”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The article says Strane groomed the girls. Groomed. I repeat the word over and over, try to understand what it means, but all I can think of is the lovely warm feeling I'd get when he stroked my hair.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“i will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her
- always evolving”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time

- together”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“i miss the days my friends
knew every mundane detail about my life
and i knew every ordinary detail about theirs
adulthood has starved me of that consistency
that us
the walks around the block
the long conversations when we were
too lost in the moment to care what time it was
when we won and celebrated
when we failed and celebrated harder
when we were just kids
now we have our very important jobs
that fill up our very busy schedules
we compare calendars just to plan coffee dates
that one of us eventually cancels
cause adulthood is being too exhausted
to leave our apartment most days
i miss knowing i once belonged
to a group of people bigger than myself
that belonging made life easier to live

- friendship nostalgia”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall.”
― Naveed A. Khan

“So when a woman chooses victimhood, she is therefore freed from personal responsibility, which then compels others to take care of her, which is why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“She doesn´t understand how satisfying sadness can be”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“there’s probably something wrong with me, an inherent weakness that manifests as laziness, a fear of hard work.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“if you tried and didn't end up where you wanted to go that's still progress”
― Rupi Kaur, Healing Through Words

“No, not crazy,” Ruby says. “Traumatized.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“you are lonely
but you are not alone
- there is a difference”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“if I am the longest relationship
of my life
isn't it time to
nurture intimacy
and love
with the person
I lie in bed with each night”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“this morning
I told the flowers
what I'd do for you
and they blossomed”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“It’s just that I’m depraved, my mind so warped by Strane that I misinterpret innocent favoritism as sexual interest.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Your mother doesn’t need a diagnosis for you to determine that your relationship is unhealthy.”
― ✨Diane Metcalf

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.”
― David Niven