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

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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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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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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

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

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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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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