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- Да, иногда жизнь действительно отстой, - говорит она. - А ты знаешь, ради чего я держусь? Я приподнимаю брови. Она приподнимает свои тоже, подражая мне. - Ради не отстойных моментов, - она поясняет. - Хитрость состоит в том, чтобы увидеть их, когда они рядом.

Злo есть в каждом и первый шаг к тому, что бы полюбить кого-либо, это найти, то зло в себе, и потом мы сможем простить их.

Заставить кого-то горевать - самая жестокая издёвка над человеком, а со мной это сделали дважды.

But that can't be forgiveness – if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happend without that hatred I can feel in my gut, right? Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them.

That's what love does, when it's right – it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious – she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

I guess we all decide our children's fates just by making our own life decisions.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, but about right and wrong, about selflessness? Do all those things have to change because we know our world was made?

I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for me parents' God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. So small as to be negligible.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.