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.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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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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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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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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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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“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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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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