I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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

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

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

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

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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Ingenuity requires creativity.

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