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"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."
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"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."
Peace

"What did you do? I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. "What did you do? This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter's grip, though his hands chafe. "What did you do? I scream. "You die, I die too Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. "I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."
Conflict

"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
Honesty

"The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live."
Healing

"Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming."
Courage

"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."
Honesty

"Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't."
Death

"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes.I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide."
Humor

"If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not."
Morality

"How do you stop conflict without conflict?"
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"Whatever happens, accept it with grace."
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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
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"The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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"You are too blessed to be worrying about your imperfections. Your original self is perfect in God's eyes, and His opinions will always matter the most."
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Personal Development

"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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Personal Development

"The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that we will ever know. Unlike the continuum of perpetual time and infinite space, everything that we know will experience disruption, dissolution, disintegration, dismemberment, and death. The inevitability of our ending represents the tragic comedy of life. Much of our needless suffering emanates from resisting our impermanence rather than embracing our fate. Only through acceptance of the events and situations that occur in a person's life including suffering, and by releasing our attachments, will a person ever experience enlightenment."
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Personal Development

"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
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Personal Development

"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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