24 Quotes by Kirsten Hubbard

I know what it’s like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.

I once heard you can’t truly hate a person until you’ve cared about them. Until you’ve loved them” -Mandarin.

Back then I thought Mother Nature split the good guys from the bad guys with a fat black line. But the thing is, in real life, they’re often the same guy.

But I realized something. When you spend so much of your life worried about the future... you forget to live” -Alice.

Toby liked to say he chose not to be impulsive. As if being impulsive were something you consciously decide. When I look at Starling, with her turquoise turban and wet knot of hair, and at Rowan, with his stack of cheap string anklets, I think: Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something you are. Like gay, or freckled or bipolar. Something I pretend to be but am not. Not really. Not deep down.

We could liberate a million trophies. We could fill every river to the brim. But it would never fully substitute for liberating ourselves.