Quotes About Acceptance

Midget," Nat says simply, his smile widening. "I was not a midget." Nat raises an eyebrow. "It looked that way from up here. The same as Rachel. The Two Midgets of Malibu." Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

They say that the truth is important. That we should treasure it. But sometimes, I have to wonder if it would be better if I had never learned it.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

So you're saying that, not only am I some kind of freak, I'm one of the biggest freaks you've spotted?". Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

Everything does not have to be a test." "Life is a test! Now answer!

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation. The afternoon tea is now an important function in Western society.

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That's when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

Grief never leaves, It merely sinks into you.

I'm driving at the fact that habits of secrecy are damaging things," Hira said in her most professorial voice. "And they underestimate other people's willingness to accept the complicated truths of your life.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

You don't mind the exclusivity, you just mind that you aren't part of it, Layla had said once, as if this was a Maryam-specific attitude rather than absolutely everyone's objection to exclusivity.

Aneeka must learn to think of him as lost forever. It was possible to do this with someone you loved, Isma had learned that early on. But you could learn it only if there was a complete vacuum where the other person had been.

Don't set yourself apart in the way you dress, the way you think, the outdated codes of behavior you cling to, the ideologies to which you attach your loyalties. Because if you do, you will be treated differently—not because of racism, though that does still exist, but because you insist on your difference from everyone else in this multiethnic, multireligious, multitudinous United Kingdom of ours. And look at all you miss out on because of it.

enveloping her in the peace that comes from knowing your own powerlessness.

Well, you obviously don't love anyone very much if your love is contingent on them always staying the same.

Time heals all wounds, but the scars remain forever

De la tristesse, un sentiment d'incrédulité plus que des regrets, et en même temps un étrange sang-froid, le sentiment que de toute façon on ne peut plus revenir en arrière et qu'il y n'y a plus qu'à avancer, avancer. Comme si en avançant encore et encore, tout au bout on allait se réveiller, et tout redeviendrait comme avant.

I…I belong to those who care about me.

Of course, I love you for who you are.

I see now... The most important things I have... I lose them, no matter how much I care for them.