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“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
“But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.”
“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”
“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”
“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”
“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”
“History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look aroun...”
“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap m...”
“My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothi...”
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
“But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?”
“You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses...”
“What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person wh...”
“There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose you...”
“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”
“But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?”
“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom”
“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”
“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”
“Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.”
“[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in orde...”
“It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.”
