One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
VERONICA ROTHHe stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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 gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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