Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Lies require commitment.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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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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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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