"Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born."

Identity, Tragedy, Expectation, Ordinary

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"Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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bell hooks, American Critic

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

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"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."

Protection

"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

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"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

Safety

"Can't get away from your own self."

Self

"I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good."

Self

"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."

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"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."

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