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aching. It was strange, Andrew thought, how when something moved in the dark, everyone’s first instinct was to go inside and hide under the covers. As if monsters couldn’t open doors and crawl into bed with you.
“These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.”
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“You can tell all the stories you want, but you still haven’t gotten across what the experience was like. It’s like telling somebody a dream. It doesn’t give them the dream. So”
― Room to Dream
― Room to Dream
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
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