Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHOne choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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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.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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