“Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.”

“I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.”

“And I understand in a way I never have before that loving someone is always going to feel like flying - the unthinkable drop, the fear of falling, the heart-in-your-throat thrill. It is always goin...”

“But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.”

“And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.”

“No one controls who we turn into but us.”

“You matter.”

“It's taken me all this time, all this loss, to realize what really matters is now.”

“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed ...”

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”

“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, o...”

“To be out of touch with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.”

“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”