Book Thoughts

The feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing.

She hadn’t understood how exhausting and heartbreaking it had been to hide such a big part of herself all these years, to reshape and contort herself into something more acceptable. She hadn’t realised just how heavy her mask had been until she’d discovered what it was to live without it.

With practice, you’ll lose your fear and gain the confidence you need.”

That any minute now, like every person who had flashed in and out of her adolescence, they would decide she was too something or not enough of something else and snatch away their welcome.

is that when someone leaves, all you can do is leave a window open for them so that one day, if they choose, they can come back.”

to be a witch is to be exploited when it’s convenient and turned against when it isn’t.

So why can’t I seem to do the same thing with my father? Why can’t I stop missing the dad I never had?

“Love means constantly saying you’re sorry, and then doing better.”

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.