Nicole Sobon Quotes

#1. How could you explain to someone that sometimes it was not worth living in the past when the past was all that they had worth living for?

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#2. You love them, even though they're gone. In order to love you need to live, if you give up on life you can no longer love. You'd no longer have the capability to love them.

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#3. I knew it was a terrible idea. We were supposed to be leaving our past behind us, not fully embracing it. But she was a part of my past that I wanted to hold onto. She was my only reminder of Tommy, my only remaining connection. I couldn't let that die, not yet.

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#4. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

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#5. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.

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#6. This cell was a form of hell. I was trapped in my past, unable to escape my mistakes, forced to relive them each time a new body was brought in.
It was tortuous, and so much like my uncle.

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#7. I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This wasn't another haunting memory. This was a new form of torture.

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#8. Just as I allowed them to live in my mind, I allowed them to die.

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#9. Wait. Was that a thank you, or a lecture?" I stared back at Ramona, eyebrows raised.
"A bit of both, I suppose." She laughed. "Just do not do anything that stupid again. Got it?"
"Would you believe me if I swore to you that I wouldn't anything stupid, ever again?"
"Not for a second.

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#10. Hope could be a devastating emotion if you allowed it to control you.
But it was a risk that I was willing to take.

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#11. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.

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#12. My past is trying to catch up to me and I must continue run from it. It's the only way I can live.

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#13. I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn't here now.

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#14. The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.

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#15. It was easy to believe in anything when you were desperate enough ...

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#16. There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

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#17. As much as I hated the silence, I also found a small part of me that appreciated it. Because, even for just a brief moment, it allowed me to escape the chaos that surrounded me. Silence, as unnerving as it was, was also rather beautiful.

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#18. It never ceased to amaze me just how fast one could lose everything.

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#19. Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.

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