I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
VERONICA ROTHIn ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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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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