Change, like healing, takes time.

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

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

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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

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

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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

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