It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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 I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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