The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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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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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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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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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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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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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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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 am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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Resisting is worth doing.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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