Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
VERONICA ROTHNot 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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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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