I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH“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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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Lies require commitment.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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