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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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