Quotes About Acceptance

Puck: Thought you weren't that kind of girl. Becca: What kind of girl? Puck: My kind.

Angry Ruger? Fine. Horny Ruger? I'd gotten used to that, too. But Ruger as a gentle lover? I didn't have room for that in my head, not if I wanted to survive and move forward with my life.

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

Adoptive Mom? I am a Mom. I need no other label or prefix.

She was, after all, at home on D ward, more than she had ever been anywhere, and for the first time as a recognizable and defined thing—one of the nuts. She would have a banner under which to stand.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice [...] and I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Cat pee isn't a bad smell if you have a cat that you love.

Mom wouldn't approve of taffy for breakfast, magic word or no magic word, but Gramma Dee is different that way. A lot of grammas are.

No pido perdón, ¿para qué? si me va a perdonar porque ya no le importa…

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.

The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.

People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance." the intro from the author

you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

Harassers were often accepted, or even cheered, as mischievous bad boys.

If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

She felt the warmth of Peter's arm under her neck, and it almost felt like he was an extension of her, and like if they had souls, they lay somewhere snug between their two bodies. Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.