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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

Veronica Roth

…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Power Sacrifice Self
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Distance Even Silver
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
Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Are Important Interest People Remember World Writing
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
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
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Family Home Night Pleasant Spent Use
The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Change People Plan Truth Ways
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
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
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
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Evil Good Itself Knowledge Power
It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Accept Anything Bullying Cowardice Prove Recall Sign
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Because First Hurt Other Pain People Right Wish
But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Also Each Learn Mended Other
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

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

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