You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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It's not really the love that I envy, it's the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can't not love you.

—Cassia Leo in Abandon

The pain is just a subtle reminder of how alive you made me feel.

—Cassia Leo in Black Box

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That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right.

—Cassia Leo in Relentless

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

—Cassia Leo in Unmasked

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The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You

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Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line.… Whenever we separate ourselves from a given situation (for example, through inattentiveness, negative judgments, or impatience), we "kill" something valuable:… people, things, one's own composure, the moment itself.… These small-scale incidences of violence accumulate relentlessly, are multiplied on a social level, and become a source of the large-scale violence that can sweep down upon us so suddenly.… One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace.… A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one's own anger, carelessness, and self-absorption.

—Kenneth Kraft

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I always had a decent sense of outrage.

The most solid advice… for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

—William Saroyan

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There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again.

—Christiane Buuck

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

—Edward Abbey

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