The Brave One

"It is astonishing to find that inside you there is a sleepless, restless stranger, that keeps living inside you
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I always believed that fear belonged to other people, weaker people, and that it never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know that it's been there all along, waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved

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There is no going back, to that other person, that other place. This thing, this stranger, (...) is all you are now."