“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”

“Regardless of what you may think about yourself or what you have been told about yourself or what you may have been taught to believe about yourself… THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. THERE NEVER WAS.”

“He pauses, and I know he is about to lie. The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

“There’s a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you—that both are inherently unfeminist. I don’t agree. There’s no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.”

“You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.”

“Don’t lie to yourself with affirmations. Don’t lie to the world by pretending to be who you want to be whilst rejecting who you are in this moment. You only want to be different than who you really are because long ago, someone rejected the truth of you and you have been trying to mold yourself into something false so as to be accepted ever since.”

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”