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The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.
– Aspen Matis

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  1. I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others-”but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either. – Aspen Matis
  2. I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself. – Aspen Matis
  3. I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it. – Aspen Matis
  4. To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions … and faith, the bravest of convictions. – Gerard de Marigny
  5. The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
  6. Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. – Aspen Matis
  7. There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes – Aspen Matis
  8. The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire. – Aspen Matis
  9. I’d crossed a border-”Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I’d been, I was no longer her. – Aspen Matis
  10. I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless. – Aspen Matis
  11. As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. – Aspen Matis
  12. We aren’t afraid of what we can explain. – Aspen Matis
  13. I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen. – Aspen Matis
  14. Happy people have everything to give. – Aspen Matis
  15. Happy people have everything to give. – Aspen Matis
  16. Happy people have everything to give. – Aspen Matis
  17. Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album. – Aspen Matis
  18. My malady was submission.The symptom: my compliance.The antidote was loud clear boundaries. – Aspen Matis
  19. When I felt strongly I would say it strongly. – Aspen Matis
  20. When I felt strongly I would say it strongly. – Aspen Matis
  21. Childhood is a wilderness. – Aspen Matis
  22. I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality. – Aspen Matis
  23. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
  24. What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell. – Umera Ahmed
  25. Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:’Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy – Christina Rossetti
  26. The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die. – Bunny Naidu
  27. The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid. – Stewart Stafford
  28. The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die. – Juliette Lewis
  29. I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. – Bren Brown
  30. I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind. – Zo Marriott
  31. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Harper Lee
  32. She was the bravest person I ever knew. – Harper Lee
  33. You might just be the craziest person I’ve ever know, but you’re also the bravest. – Marcus – J Scott Savage
  34. Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step. – Anna White
  35. He wasn’t allowed to come with me there-”my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen. – Kiera C
  36. What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn’t even leave my couch for love – Sanhita Baruah
  37. Kissing her again, softly, I leave my t-shirt next to her pillow.It’s the silent promise that I’ll come back again tonight. – Poppet
  38. If you don’t speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don’t really exist – Anuranjita Kumar
  39. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen
  40. You’re like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again – Maggie Stiefvater

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