About This Quote
If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in you head. This quote is the meaning behind the popular saying, “You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.” It’s about how people are often defined by their relationships with other people, and how the choices we make within those relationships affect how we feel about ourselves.
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
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