...there is power in self-sacrifice.
I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.