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Ten Things I Hate About Me
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"Ten Things I Hate About Me" Quotes

A Lebanese-Australian teen struggles with her identity and family expectations as she leads a double life.

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I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. I'm a Muslim teenager.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

identityreligion

It's weird how you can't really miss a person until they're gone.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

missing someonerelationships

I'm not hiding me from the world; I'm hiding the world from me.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

identityself-discovery

It's like you can't talk about being sad without people thinking you're an emotional wreck.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

emotionsstigma

Maybe I'm not half of anything. Maybe I'm just a whole me.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

identityself-acceptance

I just want to be myself without feeling like I'm letting anyone down.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

identitypressure

Sometimes you have to let go of the person you used to be to find the person you were meant to be.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

self-discoverygrowth

You can't make people like you. You can only be yourself and hope they like you for who you are.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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I don't want to be anyone else. I just want to be me without having to pretend.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

identityauthenticity

The thing about secrets is that they eat away at you from the inside out.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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