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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Veronica Roth

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Away Grief Guilt heavy More
I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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Again Bad Do Like Wonder Over Sick Start Thing Wrong
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Akk Come Emotion End Let Little never Out
“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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Eyebrow Know Raise Remind Shine Sun Tunnel Underground
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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Collection Densem Few Inch Like Look Sometimes Taller Torsos World
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Better Cry Feel Laugh Only Option Right Sometimes
What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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Breakfast Celebrity Country Eye Form Fuzzy Hair People Sleep Still Swollen Tangle Today
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
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
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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Abnegation Break Difficult Else Embroidery Habit Installed Single Something Think Thread Tugging Work
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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Always Damage Each Other Even Learn Life One Escape Since Young
We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Again Familiar Feels Kiss Time
All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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Being Everything Pretend Right Stand Still Stop True
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
The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Back Every Hurt Know Love Purpose Second Truth
It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Make Ordinary Place Shrink Strange Time

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