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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Right
People
Broken
Hurt
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He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.
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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
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No one's perfect, I whisper. It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it. I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters.
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Don't you dare try to apologize. His voice shakes. This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
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You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
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You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.
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The opinions of others cannot damage you.
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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
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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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It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. 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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