I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTHKilling you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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