Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHEvery 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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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