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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.

Veronica Roth

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
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 traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Cowardice Cruelty Ferocity Trade Weakness
I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Doing Eat Need Sleep Sone Thing Write
I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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Armor Bare Everyone Feel Gone Realize Really Secret See Until Wore
My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Alone Could Even Mother Once Survive Told Want
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 don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Stop Want Yourself
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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Admit Between Confess Difference Excuse Involve Make Softening Thing
To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Between Find Place Think Want Wise
Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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Deception Mom Packaging Politeness Pretty Say Use
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Again Embrace Ever Feel Gone Like Remind Same
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
Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Challenge Choice Eye Look
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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Been Clamor Dinner Hundred Hurt Laugh never Peace People Restrain Stomach Table Talk
I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Bleed Idiocy Know Nose People Spontaneously Start

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