Pieces of Me

Kate McLaughlin

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darinakh7 июня 2023 г.
“And I bet you freaked out when you realized who you really were.” Lame, but it comes out anyway.
“I was. But I realized I would never be happy until I dealt with it. There’s no cure for many things, Dylan. I didn’t need a cure. I needed to accept. I needed to find a way to be happy in my own skin, and I did. Was it easy? No. Was it worth it? Yes.”
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darinakh7 июня 2023 г.
“I don’t want to have to live with things,” I shoot back, hotly. “I want to be fucking normal.”
“Normalcy is a sociological construct. It is relative to the individual and has no real grounding in reality.”
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darinakh7 июня 2023 г.
One of the scariest things ever is googling something you don’t want to have and seeing all the evidence that you do have it.
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darinakh6 июня 2023 г.
I always used to roll my eyes when people said not knowing was the hardest part, but it’s true. Or, at least it’s true until you know, then knowing’s the hardest part.
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darinakh6 июня 2023 г.
Getting a good likeness of someone is only half getting the features and dimensions right. The rest is all about the shading and values—you have to re-create the planes and hollows of the face with nothing more than pencil lead and the illusion of light and shadow.
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darinakh6 июня 2023 г.
“I didn’t want to complain,” I tell her. I didn’t want to be a burden. Didn’t want to be difficult.
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darinakh6 июня 2023 г.
“Do you ever look in the mirror and not recognize your face?”
“Maybe? I think the image we have of ourselves is different from what we actually project.”
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darinakh6 июня 2023 г.
I know how much badness there is in the world—what girl doesn’t? We’re told about it and all the things we’re supposed to do to avoid it from before puberty.
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