“I was never in any danger," she said calmly. "Nothing can ever hurt me. Nothing can take me from me.”
“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
“I might never stop fearing tomorrow, Braden," I admitted calmly. "The future and what it can take from me, scares me. And sometimes I freak out, and sometimes my freak-outs hurt the people closest to me.""I understand that. I can deal with it. You have to trust me.”
“Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.”
“And it’s when I’m standing there this morning, in my PJs and a hijab, next to my mum and my dad, kneeling before God, that I feel a strange sense of calm. I feel like nothing can hurt me, and nothing else matters.”
“Do they want to keep me in a glass box so nothing and no one can hurt me?”