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How is it possible to live the same story twice, from different vantage points?
I’m hard on her because I know she can handle it. And also because I don’t know any other way to be.
becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it,
Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
“You think my first instinct is to protect you.” I shift so I’m a little closer to her. “Because you’re small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you’re wrong.” Even closer. I touch her chin, and for a moment I think about closing this gap completely. “My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press,”
“Fear doesn’t shut you down,” I say. “It wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating.”
openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to,
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”
