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I can’t live through this moment. The humiliation blisters every inch of my skin, but my heart keeps beating, and so I have to. Ghosts from the past pluck at the edges of my awareness. You’ve survived worse, they murmur. Just hold on.
“Courage, dear heart.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
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“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.”
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“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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