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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.

Veronica Roth

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
He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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Anyone Kept Know Life Realize Rest Secret Strongest
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
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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Again Call Four Name Problem Say
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
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
Change, like healing, takes time.
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Change Heat Like Take Time
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
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
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
You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Build Darkness Decide Even Laugh Laughter Light Remind Sometimes Trust
I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Against Around Bare Bend Blond Dissaper Feel Head Left Nothing Pain Protect Until Watch
…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Power Sacrifice Self
I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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Call Eat Eternal Invincible Powerful Race
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
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

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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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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