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“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

“In a sense, trust is simply a stronger, more grounded version of faith.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“You needed to be taught a lesson. The kind of lesson that binds one man to another man. You removed a valuable commodity from me. A commodity that was going to provide me with a new face.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

“Believers downplay our number-one enemy, but God does not…The day that you and I fail to take the enemy seriously, we lose the battle.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

“And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good.  ”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― Betty Mahmoody, For the Love of a Child

“I am Bane -- and I could kill you... but death would only end your agony -- and silence your shame. Instead, I will simply...

BREAK YOU!

Broken... and done.”
― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1

“If you have to say what something's about," said Walter, "it's not about anything except you saying it's about something”
― Annie Proulx, Heart Songs and Other Stories

“Wandering these shelves, the many mechanical animals... ambled about their day, unaffected by the presence of Maiegryn and her children.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I’d learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be “on.” But when I’m alone my energy comes back. When I’m alone I don’t have to perform for anybody.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy