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.
VERONICA ROTHI have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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.
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A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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