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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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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

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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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[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

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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.