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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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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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 both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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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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