What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHSometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Lies require commitment.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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 think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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