You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
VERONICA ROTHIn order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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