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“Can I tell you what I think?�� She nods. “You have a strong sense of loyalty to your friends and family and that’s why you’re very hurt when you’re let down. You give out love and rightfully expect back the same love in return. But that’s not because you are sensitive, it’s because you have a big heart so when you love someone, you give them all of you and it hurts if they don’t do the same.”
― Elicia Roper, All That You Are: a heartwarming and emotional novel

“Kintsugi is a Japanese art, that takes broken pottery and delicately places it back together by sealing the cracks with gold lacquer. I found myself admiring the metaphor it represents.
It reminded me of you.
Maybe you feel like you are broken inside, maybe you’re worried that you will disappoint me. Just like this pottery, life will never be perfect, but it can be beautiful. But we have to choose to see the beauty of it, not despite it’s cracks or imperfections but because of it.

I get that you may not want to show me the side of you that’s less than perfect, but don’t you see?
I don’t want perfect. Perfect is overrated.
All I want is you.
All that you are.
Exactly as you are.
I want you to know that I will wait for you, for as long as it takes.
Take your time. (but not too long)”
― Elicia Roper, All That You Are: a heartwarming and emotional novel