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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.

Veronica Roth

Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Fraction Live Purpose Reason Without
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
Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Ask Being Mind Rude Say Sorry Use
Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Disguise Game Mission Past Suicide Wonder
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
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Answer Away Book Come Goodness People Question Virtue
I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Always Around Aueezing Both Breathing Claw Feeling Grasp Monstrous Press Strange
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
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
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
Change, like healing, takes time.
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Change Heat Like Take Time
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Desperation Make Person Surprise Thing
We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Always Confine Control Leader Matter Mean One Terrific Think Trouble Way
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
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 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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