I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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