You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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But 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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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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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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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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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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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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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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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