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“To not be afraid, all you have to do is pretend. After a while, you’ll forget you’re pretending, and just like that”—he snapped his fingers, a strange smile spreading across his face—“you are a new person.” The look in his warm, brown eyes was suddenly serious. “But even if you forget, always remember the cause of your fear so that one day, when you are stronger and your fear is gone, you can come back and destroy what caused it to begin with.”
her wounded eyes pleading for someone to show her some kindness,
A man who feels pain when those around him feel pain won’t intentionally hurt anyone else. Not unless they have to.
To not be miserable, you have to be happy. If you can’t be happy, pretend.
little bird with broken wings. You long for flight.
Listen to your instincts, yes. Feel them and the emotion they brought forth, yes. Process and learn, but never let them rule.
“you cannot be held responsible for anything you did in the name of survival. And you cannot, you cannot, hold yourself responsible for what was done to you.”
He dragged me back against his body, giving me a quick squeeze, before leaning down to whisper in my ear, “Proud of you.”
How did some people come through horrors coated with kindness and compassion, while others became tainted by it?
She shook, and yet she did not back down. Fear would not conquer her now, not when she was rising to the defense of another.
Many of our kind made the mistake of thinking fear equaled weakness. But fear was imperative to life, to living.
