It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
VERONICA ROTHThat’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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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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Lies require commitment.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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