You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
VERONICA ROTHI laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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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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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 once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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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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