Lies require commitment.
VERONICA ROTHThe 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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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 think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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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 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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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 can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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