You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
VERONICA ROTHSometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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