“Life makes so many choices for us.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Life depends on what is in your heart.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“It is easy to think you’re OK if you don’t know what you’re missing.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“she could only do what she had the knowledge and power to do at the time.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Aaman got taken for being illegal, you’ve tried to find him but haven’t had any luck, and you’re crying because you haven’t found him. That’s what it sounds like. Is that what’s going on?” “Yes.” “Are you crying over Aaman because he was a great gardener or did something happen between you guys?”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“to Sialkot. Mahmout is from the south, a world apart. Friends are irrelevant to his quest. Mahmout is grinning, as always. Mahmout slumps, yawning, onto the circular bench.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
“Juliet notices the insecurities rising within her – the demons of not being heard, the goblins of not being understood, the imps of not being considered important. The fight between them confuses her thinking into a shade of panic.”
― Sara Alexi, quote from The Illegal Gardener
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“cut you in half then I’d have a half-brother!”
― Judy Blume, quote from Double Fudge
“You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see. ”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, quote from Because I'm Worth It
“I teach girls certain skills. The first and most basic is centering. I recommend that they find a quiet place where they can sit alone daily for 10 to 15 minutes. I encourage them to sit in this place, relax their muscles and breathe deeply. Then they are to focus on their own thoughts and feelings about the day. They are not to judge these thoughts or feelings or even direct them, only to observe them and respect them. They have much to learn from their own internal reactions to their lives.”
― quote from Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
“The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Possible Side Effects
“Learn to love blackness while there is yet time, blackness
Unpatterned, blackness without horizons.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, quote from Collected Poems
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