I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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