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“I REALIZED THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING, I ONLY HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO WHAT WAS MOST IMPORTANT, AND WORK…

— Dana Malstaff

“. I don’t want to pretend that everything is okay. I’m living with what happened, moving forward without forgetting, moving forward without pretending I…

— Roxane Gay

“you don’t really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.”

— Michael Wolff

“I tried so hard to fix what I'd ruined. I tried every single day to be what they wanted. I tried all the time…

— Tahereh Mafi

“He smiled. "All that stuff can be learned," he said. "What you're doing now, that's instinct. And it counts for a lot.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“So we waited. I felt useless. I felt like I was in the way. I wished I had some nervous habits so I could…

— Moira J. Moore

“I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

“Eventually I learned that, in the beginning at least, it was better for me to be finished than to try to be perfect. I…

— Lauren Graham

“It was weird what was enough to make you feel good or bad, even though your basic life circumstances were the same.”

— Elif Batuman

“I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.”

— Sarah Dessen

“...I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something…

— Marlene Mienie

“as well. Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become”

— George Hincapie