I'd been so set on an escape ...

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
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 Alexander Gordon Smith

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And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
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 Alexander Gordon Smith
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakeable, golden belief that things can get better.
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 Alexander Gordon Smith