I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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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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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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