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"Sometimes a shadow wins," she sang, describing my lowest feelings perfectly. But then, she helped me rally: "Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live / Maybe one of these days you can let the light in / Show me how big your brave is."

"How do you navigate a healthy relationship with a broken compass? I didn't know what real love was supposed to look like."

“We knew too well what some daughters were forced to
endure. I was reaching out to the first man who had preyed on me. I now know that it is common for survivors for abuse to try to “fix” their pasts by continuing to engage with their abusers. But I didn't
know that then.”

“He'd succeeded in convincing me that he was helping me — protecting me from a mediocre life that I didn't deserve.

“Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It’s the lowest you can go. If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would be nothing - even though it’s just a very little or something.”

"Sometimes it's better to do something wrong than right."

"Torches were made to be passed."

"We are not always as important as we think we are."

"No act of mercy, however small, is ever wasted."

"Better to munch on grain in safety than to nibble on cake in fear."

"There is nothing more frightening to a forest than the threat of a fire."

Obsequious

"Bit by bit, your innocence bled out of your wounds."

"They are allergic to claiming responsibility for their actions."

"No one can truly know what is in another person's head."

"You don't have to become ready if you stay ready."

"You cannot meet the unreasonable with kindness. It is like you keep digging hoping to find water. If you are dying of thirst, one drop of that dirty water will feel like the best water you have ever tasted. When you are dying of thirst, you will drink it all without question."

"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

Ionosphere

"Time is an illusion."

Apropos of nothing

"Necessary steps (mayhe necessary evils) didn't always make you feel good afterward."

"If you had magic, the will and intent would form the words, or the sounds, to bend the magic to do what you wanted."

"It had been an assault on logic."