Reading is such a huge part of my life.
VERONICA ROTHSince I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose 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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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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