Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
VERONICA ROTHBeing honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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