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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi