I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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