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“When I write, it isn’t courage I feel. It is terror. But I choose it anyway. I choose to give the trembling a shape. To let it speak, even if my voice falters. And maybe that is all bravery truly is... the choice to move forward, even as one’s hands shake.”

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Book:The Strange Mercy of Listening
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