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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

Veronica Roth

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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Arm Finger Hold Like Blade Press Slide Statemate Stay
In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Away Between Cloth Everything Exactly Know Layer Moment Peel Separate Strip Want
A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Air Breathe Close Corner Look Mouth Nail Remember replace Same Smile Tug
Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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Cry Eyes Face Inspect Like Look Narrowing Say
I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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Around Chest Each Exactly Hand Memorize Mine Pressure Together Waist
I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Already Everything Know Terrified
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Cowardice Cruelty Ferocity Trade Weakness
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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Company Find Keep Leave Loneliness Myself Other Them
I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Stop Want Yourself
I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Brave Last One Say Time
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Body Campfire Fire Fuel Inferno Rage
When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Classmate Critic Get Hard Hear Internal Over Reality Sometimes Stuff Writer
My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Alone Fraction Live Mother Once Purpose Reason Survive
We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Always Confine Control Leader Matter Mean One Terrific Think Trouble Way
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Choice Define Destroy Doubt Transform
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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Change Come Difficult Know Line Long Many Origin Slowly Stung Together Work

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

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