Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTHWhat 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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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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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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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