Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
VERONICA ROTHBut when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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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 find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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