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1 " Regret, I was learning, was the sharpest knife there was. "
― Aisha Saeed , Amal Unbound
2 " If everyone decided nothing could change, nothing ever would. "
3 " You always have a choice. Making choices even when they scare you because you know it's the right thing to do - that's bravery. "
4 " Change, no matter how good and necessary, comes with a price. "
5 " But the thing was—those books were what made my days bearable. They were what helped me sleep at night without my homesickness choking me. Without books, what was there to look forward to? "
6 " Sometimes I wish I did not pay such careful attention. Maybe then I would not have learned that they thought being a girl was such a bad thing. "
7 " It turned out he wasn't just a poet. He was also a politician, a teacher, a lawyer, a scholar, and a knight. I thought one dream was enough for a person, but reading his story, I learned some people could hold on to many different dreams and see them all come true. "
8 " Until now I didn't realize how memories clumped together. Remembering one unlocked another and then another until you were drowning in a tidal wave threatening to sweep you away. "
9 " If everyone decided nothing would change, nothing ever would. "
10 " But the thing was - those books were what made my days bearable. They were what helped me sleep at night without my homesickness choking me. Without books, what was there to look forward to? "
11 " The thing is- those books made my days bearable. "
12 " Making choices even when they scare you because you know it's the right thing to do - that's bravery. "
13 " My mother always said the best way to feel better was to do something, anything. And she was right; making myself useful had always helped. "
14 " If I thought nothing would change, nothing ever would. "