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“There is cruelty to survive to fight against but there is gentleness more than anything. Our roots deep and entangled. That is what we hold inside, what we take with us, the way we look after each other.”

“No one can meet your trust if you don’t offer it.”

“All creatures know love.”

“The wolf was always brave.”

“You don’t hunt wolves, you hunt their prey.”

“Can’t track wolves, not really. You don’t find them, you leave them be. There is no tracking a wolf. They’re more cleaver than we are. So instead you track its prey.”

“Dad used to say my greatest gift was I could get inside the skin of another human. That I could feel what nobody else could. The body knows a great deal. I have the miraculous ability to know more than one body. Compassion was the most important thing one can learn. If someone hurt us all we needed was empathy and forgiveness would be easy.”

“But on this, I would not be broken. I had a magic power that wasn’t magic. I felt what other people felt and I knew what lived in those touches and how it was mostly sweetness. You didn’t touch sweetly unless you were good.”

“Why did she keep bringing us here to keep witnessing the absolute worst in people? Bc she was trying to break me. To make me admit that she was right. That people for the most part were irredeemable. And that if I didn’t toughen up, I’d become one of the people in those stands telling a judge what had been done to me…”

“But then who said love does not exist in the nature of all things.”

“We are all hard wired for empathy. Although at times it can be exhausting.”

“We are hardwired for empathy. Although it can be exhausting.”