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"I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted."
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"It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it."
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"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."
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"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."
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"Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up."
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"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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"Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn."
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"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."
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"This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it."
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"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."
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"Sometimes,you don't wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same."
Awakening
"I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI can't bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can'tfind the pretty words I need."
Affection
"I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?"
Mental Health
"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."
Anger
"Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit."
Parenting
"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."
Family
"GhostsTake shape under moonlight,materialize in dreams.Shadows. Silhouettesof what is no more. Butghosts don'tbother me. The day bringsbigger things to worry aboutthan flimsy remains ofyesterday. No, spooks don'tscare me.Gauzy apparitions mightprank your psyche oragitate your nightmares,but lackingflesh and bloodthey are powerlessto hurt you-cannot hopeto inflict the kind of damagethat real, livepeople do."
Fear
"Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?"
Freedom
"What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind."
Ethics
"Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do."
Emotion
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