The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
VERONICA ROTH
What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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