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“When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.”
“No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.”
“There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.”
“I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.”
“People are always quick to call evil what they do not know. The unknown sprouts fear. It spreads like an infection, burrowing into every facet of their lives. They need a scapegoat, someone to blam...”
“On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across...”
“This was where war happened, in someones backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someones a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.Every day, someone l...”
“Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... and suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to mak...”
“At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.”
“I have only ever known Guilt to have one weakness, one not easily given and not easily found: Forgiveness...In truth, Guilts strength lies not in the failure of others to grant us forgiveness, but ...”
“Things are never as they seem. A person. A Mark. A statement. They are always deeper than we perceive, like walking in the ocean and suddenly dipping under the surface because the bottom has disapp...”
“It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you blinked, if you closed your eyes or turned your head for even the briefest of moments, you might jus...”
“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have b...”
“But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.”
“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her wo...”
“My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.”
“There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.”
“This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing”
“I cannot detain Love, holding him captive so that he may never break my heart. No more than I can stick Guilt in a pot so that I may boil him until all of my sins are vaporized, rising alongside th...”
“Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and be...”
