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I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

Brad Meltzer

…as your father, my instinct is to protect you … Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
BRAD MELTZER

Father People Waiting
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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Alraedy Book Fate Scar Written
History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
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Individual Long People
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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Harm Pain World
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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Every Fork Life Road Sometimes
In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Battle Challenges Soul
We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.
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Government Hate People
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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Lying Ourselves Worst
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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Believe Fighting Injustice
There’s nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us – or admitting we can’t do it all ourselves.
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Admitting Someone Wanting
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
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Character Out Plot Work
As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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Believe Daughter Fighting
You tell them – you tell them there’s a cost…..Every decision we make in life, there’s always a cost.
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Cost Decision Make
Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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Cards Sometimes Winning
She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
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Adoption Father Tracking
Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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Book Changing World

I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

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I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

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