We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
VERONICA ROTHMaybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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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 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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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 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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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