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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your hea...more

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if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

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The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they...more

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If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. A...more

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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happ...more

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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family l...more

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...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love matte...more

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but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everythin...more

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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant gra...more

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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain...more

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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final desti...more