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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More Veronica Roth Quotes
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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