Quotes from book

Keeping the Moon

“for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon… So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”

“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

“She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.”

“Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside… It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.”

“You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.”

“It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.”

“Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it”

“I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.”

“Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.”

“We can all be beautiful girls.”

“It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.”

“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”

“See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.”

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”

“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”

“It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”