You know it's absolutely fine for people to disagree, to be mad at each other.

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In the end, I think it comes down to being comfortable with who you are versus where you are.

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I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that I was shy and awkward didn't change just because I changed locations.

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Don't you ever wonder if everything we've been told really makes sense?

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Then it occurred to me: You either waited for someone else to do the right thing, or you stood up and did it yourself.

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The easy thing isn't the same as the right thing.

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Tell me the truth. When you were a kid, did you always color inside the lines?”
"Coloring in the lines is the whole point. That’s why they have lines,” I said.
“That’s where you’re wrong. The lines are there just to hold you in. Like a prison. Think what you might have created if there hadn’t been any lines.

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Mr. Winston and I had already discussed:

How what I'd done was vile and on par with kicking disabled kittens.

That I was on the path to becoming a criminal and likely would spend the rest of my life in jail giving myself homemade tattoos with a needle and Bic pen.

That the statue was a work of art, and would I dare to ear the arm off the Mona Lisa? He didn't think so.

That I was a disappointment to him, my family, my boyfriend, my fellow students, and likely all of Western civilization.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you do something embarrassing like fall down the stairs in front of a group of people, you are required to act like you are fine, even if you aren't. Your arm could have a bone jutting out, and you would still try to laugh it off as if everything were hunky dory. This compound fracture? It's nothing! I like to let my bones out of my body once in a while for fresh air. It's good for them.

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I couldn't decide if I was more offended that people thought I was the kind of person who would kill myself over a boyfriend or that I was apparently too stupid to know how to do it right.

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