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"Of how sometimes, in the deepest dark, you lose yourself entirely. Or you find a new way forward - reinventing who you are. Who you can still become."

"Great tragedies don't ask for great heroes. They ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing. ...Maybe that's all any of us can do now."

"The world he once believed in - of reason, of medical ethics, of fundamental human dignity - is gone, replaced by something monstrous. And they have all let it happen, one small compromise at a time."

"But now he understands that words are another kind of tool, another way to shape the world."

"There were no good answers anymore, only choices about how to carry what felt unbearable."

"Life happens to us. How we choose to act, whom we choose to love - that's all we can control."

"I rather like seeing children read," he said. "It gives me hope."

"There must be more to life than dulling the ache of it."

"But what endures unchanged through fire might just carry the most powerful secret of all - that which seems like an ending is instead a beginning."