Teri Terry Quotes

It doesn't look much from the outside. But what you get outside is often like that. People, especially, can be so different from what you can see that you'd never guess what goes on in their secret places. What they are capable of.

Use the fear; feed the anger.

It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?

But soon I forget all they are being and doing and saying, and stare out the window.

What if everyone in this car had said, together: no you can't take them. Could we have stopped it?
The answer might have been yes, for a few minutes. But they'd have reinforcements at the next station; we'd all have been arrested and taken away. We'd face the same fate she will. Is that a good enough reason to say nothing?

I have both been given and taken so many identities, but at last I am beginning to grow into my one true name.
This was the gift my mother gave to me: Hope.

Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.

A high tower, like Rapunzel's, but this has no windows, nowhere to lower my hair.

Failure is not an option.

And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones.

Never forget who you are.

Caring for someone is never a bad thing, even if it doesn't work out

To form something greater than the sum of its parts.

And think about things, I do: late that night. All through school the next day, wandering to classes, unaware of my surroundings.

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.

Truth is freedom. Freedom is truth.

Like Aiden said: how can you truly love somebody when you don't know who they really are?