The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
VERONICA ROTHSince I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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 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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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I 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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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