(At the request of joni7hgc)
The author of the most amazing books, like In search of us. <3

"I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be." 

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"We are each weird in a different way, but together, that's actually normal."  

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"I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter." 

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"When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved." 

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"And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing you could be the author instead." 

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"But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff." 

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"Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true. And truth is bright. Truth makes you more you." 

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"It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you." 

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"So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren't so helpless." 

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"You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling."