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The road is black ahead, I told her. And it's hard to keep walking when you can't see the ground beneath your feet. But that's what courage is. The will to keep walking in the darkness.
This world won't give you what you want just because you asked nicely, girl. Not respect. Not love. Not peace. You get what you earn. You eat what you kill.
To open a book is to open a door - to another place, another time, another mind. And usually, mademoiselle, it's a mind far sharper than your own.
But truth is, nobody really knows what they're made of 'til they get offered that choice.
The world must look very different on your knees.
It does. That is why we pray there, little one.
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool from his friends, but even the fool can learn if his friends are willing to call him one.
Surround yourself with folk who confront you. If you're not being challenged, you're not learning anything. If you're the smartest man in the room, you're in the wrong fucking room.
But don't yee see? We don't get broken. We're made broken. We are not whole alone. But if we're blessed, if we're brave, we might find those few whose edges fit against our own. Like pieces of the same puzzle, or shards of the same shattered blade. Those people who, in their own broken way, make our broken edge complete.