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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Veronica Roth

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
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
To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Between Find Place Think Want Wise
I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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Again Bad Do Like Wonder Over Sick Start Thing Wrong
Lies require commitment.
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Commitment Less Require
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 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
Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Finally Keep Look Lose People Person Stare
The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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Back Every Hurt Know Love Purpose Second Truth
Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Fraction Live Purpose Reason Without
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
Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Arm Around Both Enjoy Obedient Say Slip Smile Waist Wall
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
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
Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Challenge Choice Eye Look
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

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