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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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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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 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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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

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Ingenuity requires creativity.

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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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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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