I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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