But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTH
Change, like healing, takes time.
More Veronica Roth Quotes
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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