What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHThen 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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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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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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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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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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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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