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.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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