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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

“The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.”

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

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“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”

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“Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”

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“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”

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“In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.”

Gregory Maguire book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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