I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
VERONICA ROTHI have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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 didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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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 am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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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 want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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