My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
VERONICA ROTHNature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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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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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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