In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
VERONICA ROTHI 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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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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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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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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