" When you constantly hear that you can’t do something, or that your goal is out of reach, that it’s wrong for you to have ambitions, and you hear that message over and over again . . . you start to believe it yourself. That’s why I blew up at you earlier. I couldn’t reconcile the truth of what you were saying with the lies I’d accepted for so long. "

― F.C. Yee , The Iron Will of Genie Lo (The Epic Crush of Genie Lo, #2)