Quotes About Self-discovery

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

If I asked you to stay, would you?" I ask later as we're standing by his car. "Maybe I would, but I don't think you'd ask me. But I swear to God that I'll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything. . . ." I shake my head again. "You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.

I want to step outside my circle and look at the other options. I don't want to do what other people think I'll end up doing.

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.

Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

The end of a relationship doesn't mean you failed. It means you learned what you needed to, and it's time to move on.

I don't know when the boys began to walk away with parts of myself in their sticky hands; when loving became a process of subtraction. Or why, having given up what seems so much, I'm willing to lose even more — erasing all this body's known, relearning it with you.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.