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.
VERONICA ROTHTo find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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 feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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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.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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