Quotes About Acceptance

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

We can all be beautiful girls.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

I just think that some things are meant to be broken, imperfect, chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, ya know? [...] If everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that. You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then, otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't

Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble.' pg 169-170

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Life isn't fair, Owen told her. Get used to it.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

And don't change for a guy, ever, Leah added. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.