Quotes About Acceptance

You're honorable, Avery Kylie Grambs. Once you were with me, you were with me. You love me, scars and all. I know that, Heiress. I do.

No expectations, no disappointments. [Michael Townsend]

Don't," Judd told her sharply. "Don't you ever apologize for being what you are.

What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?

I'm not your penance, Grayson Hawthorne.

It was never just the idea of you, Avery." I tried not to feel like the ground was suddenly moving underneath my feet. "You hated the idea of me." "But not you." The words were just as sweet, just as painful. "Never you.

My grandmother gave an elegant little shrug. "People will think what they want. I daresay they always do.

Someone tried to kill me, and I'm going swimming. I'm going swimming, because it doesn't matter. I'm going swimming, because I don't matter. I'm going swimming, because that's what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.

People who'd always had a family to count on and place to belong couldn't truly understand the draw of that little whisper that said There's someone like you. Someone who wouldn't hold my origins against me.

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

I moved on from Emily," he said. "Gray didn't. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

But mostly, I can't hate him, Avery Kylie Grambs, because he brought me you.

There is something fundamentally wrong with you

It doesn't have to be anything other than what it is. No messy feelings. No obligations. No promises. No expectations.

I'm supposed to be stronger than this. I wanted to be stronger than this. For you"... "You don't have to be anything for me, Grayson." I wait until he opens his eyes, until he's looking at me. "This," I say. "You. It's enough"... "It will never be enough.

You love fairy tales, I know, but I can't be your happily-ever-after. We can't stay here in our little castle forever.

People were fundamentally predictable. If you stopped expecting them to surprise you, they couldn't disappoint.

For the first time in my life, I felt like I belonged somewhere. With my fellow Naturals, I never had to pretend to be someone I wasn't. I couldn't have, even if I'd wanted to.

There's only so much one can do with Mercury in retrograde, but…" She let out a long, theatrical breath.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast

Grief is a monster.