No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
VERONICA ROTHHe stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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 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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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