That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
VERONICA ROTHBut now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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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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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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