"She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions."

Despair, Voice, Strength, Emotion, Expression

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"She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions."

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"I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die."

John Green, American Author

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"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

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"Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics."

Clarity

"What are you doing? Egnatious asked, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Gabriella do a flip.Firen mimicked Gabriella and turned to Egnatious. 'Fun times. Go with it. She didn't even crack a smile, though her body language said she was laughing on the inside.Instead of following their act, Egnatious simply dove for an outcrop just as it began moving away. He nearly lost his balance, but Firen caught his flailing arms.'Are you having a seizure or something? she jested, displaying a rare vein of humor.Egnatious sent her a queasy glare."

Humor

"A layer of fine powder coats his skin.'My lungs are turning to concrete, Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.'So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things? Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact."

Action

"Why aren't you smiling? Cameron asks. She picks up the Astropad and stops the video.'Because this is the beginning, not the end."

Learning

"Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure."

Emotion

"Why won't you look at me? she murmurs.He doesn't speak, seemingly at a loss for words.'It's my scars. It comes out as barely a whisper.Horror spasms across his face. 'What? No, he says, a bit breathless. 'You're beautiful. All of you."

Beauty

"Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn't relish the idea of forcing himself to suffer through such agony. But it was necessary. Earth depended on them taking possession of the key. 'It's the only way out, Andrew reminded him.'I understand that, but-'The trials we have faced thus far have been minimal, Andrew said, cutting off Sebastian's retort. 'What we seek is the key to the universe. You didn't expect it to be easy, did you?"

Sacrifice

"I can't-won't do that to him, Summer says sharply. 'Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren't real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can't trust that any of this is real."

Trust

"I thought it was just him, she says, ignoring him. 'But then I found out I had the same effect, which means the Society did something to my head too.Gage's eyes close, horror washing over him. 'You really do love him.'Yes. No. I don't know. Her cries start up again, piercing his heart. 'Gage, help me.'I love you, he says, holding her closer. 'That's real."

Life

"Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond this ridge. His light hair, darkened by rain. His stiff shoulders, full of pain. The vision poisoned with truth. With rust-stained hues."

Risk