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.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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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 feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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