In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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