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“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.”
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“This is when I learned that nice people sometimes felt they had to pretend to be mean and awful.”
― The Good Luck of Right Now
― The Good Luck of Right Now
“I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.”
― Behind the Hospital
― Behind the Hospital
“Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.”
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“I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do. Sometimes I get weary of it, and that makes me angry.
It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way.”
― The Countess Conspiracy
It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way.”
― The Countess Conspiracy
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