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

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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Some things are hard to let go of.

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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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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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