Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I love him because he makes me laugh when I don't feel like laughing. I love him because he challenges my view of what a man is. I love him because I know I shouldn't love him and that he'll break my heart. I love him because he's a complete and total anomaly. I love him because I want to kill the sadness inside him more than I want anything else in the world.

—L.H. Cosway in Painted Faces

I have a history of trying to fix that which is broken, and I still don't think I've fully learned that people can't be fixed, they have to fix themselves.

—L.H. Cosway in Tegan's Blood

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Would it make you feel better to know that we all get the same number of hours in a day, days in a year? Some people might be rich and some might be poor, but none of them can buy time. It is one of the fairest systems in the world.

—L.H. Cosway in Hearts of Fire

Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful boy walks into your life, sees something he doesn't like or doesn't understand, and painstakingly endeavors to make you feel how much he hates you, to be constantly aware of the flaws that provoke that hatred. And then you grow older and wiser, but you don't forget the cruelty. You can't forget it, because there is nothing stronger, nothing more palpable in the human brain than the memory of mistreatment.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

Nothing worth having is easy. The same goes for people. The ones who take cold, hard guts to get inside of are the most worthy of all. The ones you have to fight for.

—L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty

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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

—Thomas Fuller

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Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Wild Rose

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