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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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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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