What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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 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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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