I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
VERONICA ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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