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.
VERONICA ROTHThe fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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 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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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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