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You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.

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This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

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As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun.This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what...more

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I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just a...more

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Men like you preach change, but I wonder. Is this a battle we can really fight?”“You’re fighting it already, Goodman Mennis. You’re just losing horrib...more

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That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much...more

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Vin paused. "And you have all of these religions memorized?""As much as is possible," Sazed said. "Their prayers, their beliefs, their mythologies. Ma...more

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We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

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I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

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That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

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What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the...more

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She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone

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Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the cou...more

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Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said....more