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Words don’t hurt you.” Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they’re told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.
“Once you get wound in with bad people, the unwinding never ends.”
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source?
A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
“Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.”
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
History is written by the victors—and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders.”
Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can’t remember being well? What if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Death, as they say, doesn’t just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.
