…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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