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"We don’t have to stop living because we might die."

"The world might be too loud or too silent. It might be neon bright or pitch black, but slowly, it’ll put itself back together."

"Time is the best medicine to turn our bleeding wounds to scars, and our bodies might forget the trauma, our eyes might learn to see colors as they should be seen, but that cure doesn’t extend to our souls."

"My life returns to me in images, smells, and sounds, but never feelings. I feel nothing."

"But the way memory animates the past is more real than the present."

"I look back now on so many moments in my life when I instinctively took responsibility for the actions and feelings of those around me."

"I endured and waited, because that's what girls do."

'It's your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you're free to do just as you like. And even that doesn't turn out how you wanted.'

"There's nothing wrong with keeping quiet; after all, hadn't women traditionally been expected to be demure and re-strained?"

You cannot violate the rules of this world without a price.

Though I was surrounded by people it was almost as if they couldn’t see me, only what they needed from me.

I could survive another reject, but I couldn’t bear the thought that I hadn’t even tried to put this right.

I couldn’t give in to my heart, so I gave in to my anger.

"It doesn’t matter what you are. It matters what you can do."

"We all have limits, and when we push them, we tire."

"Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it."

"It’s okay to flout expectations, but never disappoint them."

"Scars make good reminders."

“Don’t think you haven’t lived long enough to have a story to tell.”

"You get one life. Why do you mant to live it for someone else?"

"His stillness transports him somewhere beyond reason and action and language. He trusts that what unfolds has a purpose, even if he cannot see it."

"Perhaps disappointment is the price of hope."

"The story ends when there is nothing more to strive after. There is no more wanting."

"He learns to leave behind what he has left behind."

"Eventually, she wonders herself into the realization that answers won’t change what’s been done."

"You have to carry your regrets until you’ve made peace with them. Only then can you lay them down."

"Hearing the words aloud has solidified the reality."

"She loves her reading, it’s like traveling through space and time."

"No matter what he decides, it will be both a blessing and a curse."

"Where there is fear, there is also opportunity."

"With her, he can let down his guards because he is with someone who, in her ignorance, her innocence, offers safety."

"He pushes away the memories. If he looks at them, he’ll see how big his sorrows are."

"There is, in her expression, the kind of light that could lift him."

"Despite everything, she insists on adding brightness and beauty."

"An object can hold on to memories and stories in a way that people, that generations, cannot."

"Her independence has been too hard won to relinquish to some man."

"They have been one another's only constant. When everything else was uncertain, they found certainty in each other."

"Even if the war were to end tomorrow, he'll inherit a country of burned cities, displaced people, broken families."

"Instead of the adrenaline of immediate need, she begins to feel the qualms of daring to look forward, to dream."

"There are no easy decisions in difficult times."

"She's not sure how to answer what she hasn't even asked herself."

"let's not carry anything that we've already left behind."

"To tell a story, he realises, is to plant a seed and let it grow."

"She has always believed that eventually, everything would be okay."

"Although he is dead, he is not gone."

"Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. And so it goes, until the end of time."

"She was frightened, but she was also determined. These two feelings always go hand in hand!"

"Then, even if we didn't say anything, I felt like we were having a conversation."

"However, a mother doesn't have the power to determine the life of her children just because she has, she says, devoted her life to them."

"How many stories marked with scars were there in her heart?"

"Although she had not been able to achieve her dream, she had done her best at every moment."

"People should always watch their mouths. Words become sparks that kindle fires."

"She wanted to get rid of her frustration and sadness, but she had nowhere to go."

"The emotions, which she had held under control all through the night, burst free, leaving her without strength."

"She found it hard to control her seething emotions if she sat doing nothing."

"An anxious mind can lead to accidents."

"It was difficult for her to free herself of her disappointment."

"She swore that she would not beg for his heart, and tried to overcome her pride, but it did not last long."

"The thought struck her that she was happy. Still, she looked around, feeling that misfortune might be lurking, on the lookout for an opportunity."

"Everything that Willow laid her eyes on reminded her of his absence."

"If the word "marriage" started to circulate and then things went wrong, that too was always considered the woman's fault."

"It was difficult to find a comforting word to say when she was so privileged."

"To her, being seen as a liar was worse than not being loved."

"She braced herself, her heart swinging between heartache and delight with each one of his actions, as if on a seesaw."

"If we don't stand up for what we believe, then we are guilty of collaborating in our hearts."

"Many people, when they envision being faced with hardship, believe they will fight back."

"When the string breaks while working, there is still the rope. When the oars wear out, there is still the tree. She recited. "You feel you can't go on, but you will."

"Her body was there, but it was as if her mind had flown out of the house and was soaring high above the sea."

"I could tell from his stillness that he was doing as good a job as I was at keeping his emotions hidden."

"Even when we're separated, we'll always be together."

"Her body had such lightness to it. She could have lifted right off the floor and out the window."