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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the c...more

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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

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

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I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terribl...more

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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

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I wish I could tell him that we’re going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I’m supposed to. But the i...more

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I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

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I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.

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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've ex...more

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the ...more

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Fear,” she says, “is more powerful than pain.