You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
VERONICA ROTHHis 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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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