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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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to 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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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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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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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

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

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

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

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