Quotes About Acceptance

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me.

One never notices how nice it is to be worshipped until one has fallen from grace,

You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are." Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.

Because I can tell that I'm different from the others. And they can tell, too. The rest of the taps look at me and ask themselves what I'm doing here. I know they do.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

Diversity is not possible in the homogeneous environment of Vulcan. We can preach diversity, but we cannot experience it if we reject that which is diverse. Logic is linear, Ensign. Life is not.

People…ladies, I mean…they dye their hair sometimes," I explained to him. "So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn't matter," I said. "They're still the same lady.

Now Sam and Noelle were dead and I was about to lost my grandpa, and I knew I would never have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

Let's reframe what you're going through, Maggie," he said. "I'd like you to think of it as grief." "For the people who died?" "No. For yourself. For the life you thought you had before the fire. Before Ben.

But she could only play herself with Kyle and Lou, and that was the one role for which she could never memorize the lines.

redhead." CeeCee remembered

And grief is never quick and easy," he said. "It takes time to get through." "I'll never get over it," I said. "Not over, but through. That's the key word. You can't skip it. You have to go through it.

Dylan Geer! Why would you…oh, you must

We can't always have what we want in life. I should know that by now.

Fred started to follow, but Nita caught him in cupped hands, holding him back for a moment. "Fred! Did we do right?" Even here she couldn't keep the pain out of her question, the fear that she could have somehow have prevented his death. But Fred radiated a serene and wondering joy that took her breath and reassured her and filled her with wonder to match his, all at once. Go find out , he said.

We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do?

They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined could be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.

They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined cold be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.

Painful memories are like landmines, patiently lying in wait. They lure us into places we ought to avoid, but sometimes, painful memories are all that we have left.