
f e a r doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.
‘Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can’t breathe.
The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that’s where I aimed it.’….
‘He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing,
teasing, more alive in memory than I am in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.’
Tomorrow at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
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We have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive, sometimes it threatens to destroy us