Quotes About Acceptance

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.

We got boobies! the kid me said, gawking at my chest. I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.

I closed my eyes, bowed my head and thought, AH, HELL . . .

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

No, Zoey. Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you. Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.

There was a pause, and then Damien said, I nominate Erik Night. Shaunee rolled her eyes. Erin said, Okay, how many times do we have to explain this to you--the boy is not on your team. He likes breasts and vaginas, not penises and anu-- Stop! I absolutely did not want to get off on this subject. I think Erik Night is a good choice, and not because he likes me or, well...

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up! shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me? She answered his question with one of her own. I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant? It makes you a miracle. She held his gaze. Exactly.

You are special. Accept that about yourself, and you will begin to understand there is true power in your uniqueness.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.

I was blinking back freaked-out tears when Rephaim whispered my name. I looked over at him. He smiled and mouthed two small words: people change.

No sabía qué pensar de aquel hombre caballo con quien debía permanecer casada durante un año. Era obvio que me interesaba. Después de todo, no había conocido nunca a nadie como él. Admitamos que no hay muchos centauros corriendo por Oklahoma, al menos por Tulsa. Una no podía saber lo que pasaba en el interior del Estado. P.C. Cast, En el lugar de la diosa

You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.

Life isn't a book, Heath! There's no guarantee of a happy ending," I said.

Yet as he stared into Stevie Rae's soft blue eyes, what he saw was a whole new world—a world in which this strange little red vampyre meant heart and soul and truth.

But, Venus, isn't that just part of love?" Pea asked gently. "You have to be vulnerable to truly be loved.

I'm a monster, not a moron.

Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said...

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we? I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

But you don't belong here! You're dead! I sobbed against his chest. Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.

Have you ever been turned down by a girl who afterwards married and then been introduced to her husband? If so you'll understand how I felt when Clarence burst on me. You know the feeling. First of all, when you hear about the marriage, you say to yourself, I wonder what he's like. Then you meet him, and think, There must be some mistake. She can't have preferred this to me!

No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure.

The true philosopher is a man who says All right, and goes to sleep in his armchair.

For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it.