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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

Veronica Roth

Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Being Choose Honest Mean Say True Want
Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Collection Densem Few Inch Like Look Sometimes Taller Torsos World
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Desperation Make Person Surprise Thing
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
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
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
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
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
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Before Broken Hurt Kind never Part Realize Strong
When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Classmate Critic Get Hard Hear Internal Over Reality Sometimes Stuff Writer
It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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Blow Feel Head Phrase Sentence Strange Word
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
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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Brave Happen Long Matter Real Someone Something Train Until
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
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

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