My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
VERONICA ROTHAt home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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