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.
VERONICA ROTHThe truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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