It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHMy 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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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