Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

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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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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand

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

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

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