Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

Richelle Mead
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I realized that life is not always easy. It’s not always happy. It’s not always kind. But it is beautiful, and worth fighting for.

And it’s also worth celebrating when we get through the hard times. As I walked across the quad, I let my mind go back to the moments when Lissa and I had first met. We had both been so ashamed of who we were, so scared of being judged by our classmates, so convinced that no one would ever love us.

The truth was that everyone loved us, but no one really knew who we were or what we were about. We just knew that it hurt too much to tell the truth about ourselves, so we each pretended to be someone else. And then, one day, our masks slipped away, and we found each other in the middle of all of this chaos and confusion.

That was what happened when you gave yourself completely to someone else: you revealed yourself to them once and for all. The mask fell off...

Source: Vampire Academy

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