But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
VERONICA ROTHBeing honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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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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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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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Maybe 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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“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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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