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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

My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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Caleb Everything Father Fireplace Help Homework Kid Mother Neighbour Peace Suppose
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Desperation Make Person Surprise Thing
I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Control Face Fear Frightening Have Less Make Situation Way
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
I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Alive Building Cast Darkness Laugh Laughter Light Place Remind Strange
Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Again Choice Country Made People Person
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
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
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
Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Creativity Ingenuity Require
That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Be Could Love Make More Right Thought
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
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Again Empty Feel Grief Monster Space Stomach Use Writing
I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Anything Believe Come Correct Depend Rack Transgression
I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Answer Aptitude Atack Attack Dog Either Eyes Give Look Peace Question Remind Submission Test
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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Certain Condition Direction Dozen Every Fraction Hard Learn Member Mind Most People Think Way

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