You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
VERONICA ROTHIt’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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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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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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Lies require commitment.
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Since 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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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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