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So Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she’d found it had devoured her, too.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“I think that’s the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren’t physical. Sometimes they simply”
― My Hope Next Door
― My Hope Next Door
“This was laughable, of course, but that’s always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is liberation. A police state is a democratic republic. And we were “the masters of our destiny.” And if we begged to differ, we were dead.”
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
― A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
“I think that’s the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren’t physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.”
― My Hope Next Door
― My Hope Next Door
Rissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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