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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.

Veronica Roth

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.
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Burden Choose Forgiveness Share Someone Wrong Wrongdoing Yourself
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Change Drastic Measure Require Sometimes
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Allow Both Least Like Little Myself Once Strong Weak While
But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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Book Come Figure Hundred Learn Listen One Opinion Separate Want
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Desperation Make Person Surprise Thing
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
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
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
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
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Cowardice Cruelty Ferocity Trade Weakness
Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Better Could Done Guilt Haven Maybe More Next Remind Time
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
Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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About Burts Fall Feel Flame Like Liquid Make Realize Something
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Control Kill Thing Worst
I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Always Around Aueezing Both Breathing Claw Feeling Grasp Monstrous Press Strange
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Evil Good Itself Knowledge Power

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