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1 " I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. "
― Veronica Roth , Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
2 " I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. "
3 " I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. "
4 " But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. "
5 " I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. "
6 " We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. "
7 " I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both. "
8 " The person you became with her is worth being. "
9 " To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough. "
10 " I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. "
11 " You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true. "
12 " I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already. "
13 " Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. "
14 " It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. "
15 " People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought. "
16 " Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of. "
17 " I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time. "
18 " You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. "
19 " We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left. "
20 " There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now. "
