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The past doesn't have to define you Leora. Your mistakes don't have to be for ever. There's redemption. There's always redemption.
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They're like a favourite novel- after you've read it once you know the story, but you still need to know it's nearby just in case you need to read it again.
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We're all a bit bad. We all have things in our lives that bring us shame and regret. Things that have hurt our souls or hurt the people we love. But 're all a bit good too. i reckon we're mostly good actually. And life is about trying to learn the balance, plot our place on the continuum... We're not just made up of good and bad: we're everything else too.
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I'll become someone new. Through blood and pain and ink, I can be remade.
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For the first time in my life, I'm doubting my faith, and it terrifies me.
For the first time, I want to change the rules.
For the first time I wonder: does it matter what it says on your skin, when what's at stake is your soul?
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Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?
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A man walks past me with his dog on a lead, bounding ahead of him, and I realize thatβs how I feel: like a stupid dog who thinks itβs leading the way but all the time is being held back and controlled.
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The ink and the oil and the blood swirl into one another as though they were made to be together.
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We will be ready. We will will be alert: always watchful, always wary of the snakes within our ranks. We will recover our purity and reclaim history and make it our present.
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My life is more than my marks show, surely? I more to tell than this. My skin tells of the tale the government has chosen for me. I have a sudden yearning to fill every inch so that nothing is lost.
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Friends, let this encourage you to live lives worthy of the calling we have received. Live lives to be remembered, friends.
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He is good, he is wise, he is the best of us. He is not cruel, he loves us, we will not fear. He does all things for our good.
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My body lets me down, betrays the real me to everyone watching - the me who is not the right kind of anything. It doesn't matter though. I'll cover this skin with new shades of black and grey; I'll become someone new. Through blood and pain and ink I can be remade.
I have more to tell than this.
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Youβve heard of love at first sight? Youβve heard of a prince that falls in love with the beautiful maiden the moment he sees her? Youβve heard the fairy tales and the happily ever afters?β I would nod, eyes wide. βWell, thatβs not our story.
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I told the girl that I loved my scars. And I do. My scars tell my story more clearly than any ink.
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Love's agony is the pain of ink on a needle buried into skin, the necessary sting, and something beautiful blossoming under its touch.
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Now, my friends, you know that a person can't play God without expecting that God might one day choose to play with him.
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A crow, a crow, the mark is a crow.
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