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.
VERONICA ROTHWe both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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