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.
VERONICA ROTHI’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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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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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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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 mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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