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"I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt and I could shatter into strange, razor-sharp shards."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again."
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"Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down."
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"As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others' opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt."
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"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."
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"I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did."
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"When I got home, my roof was gone. Overnight the weight of the snow became too much to carry. What tipped the scale? Think about it: there must have been a final snowflake that did it, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a milligram that made all the difference."
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"I'm barely human. I'm more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can "touch in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings!"
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"Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it."
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"The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young."
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"It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast."
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"Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner."
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"She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead."
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"How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am."
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"Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese."
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"And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen."
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"What have the nibblers ever done for you?"The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from her face, giving him a clear shot of her eyes. They were asking for an answer. Needing to know if she could count on him."They saved your life," he said.And for just a moment, Luxa's face softened and she smiled."
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"It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman."
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"You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub."
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