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.
VERONICA ROTHHuman reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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