No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
VERONICA ROTHWe believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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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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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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 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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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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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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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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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