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

— Melissa Marr

“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she'd always been.”

— Amy Rubin

“In all her attempts to be brave and stay strong, she'd never realized it took more courage to change than to stay the same.”

— A.B. Harms

“She lives fearlessly in the light of her own truth.”

— H.L. Balcomb

“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be…

— Ann Brashares

“She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear…

— Mervyn Peake

“Might never know, because she was one of those people who would always be defined by the way others perceived her.”

— Amanda Stevens

“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an…

— James S.A. Corey

“A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.”

— Robyn Carr

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except…

— Willa Cather