I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
VERONICA ROTHGrief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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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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