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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.

Veronica Roth

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Family Home Night Pleasant Spent Use
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
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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Act Another Believe Bravery Courage Drive One Ordinary Person Stand
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Body Campfire Fire Fuel Inferno Rage
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Before Broken Hurt Kind never Part Realize Strong
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Any Evil Excuse Human Important Reason Rely
He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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Anyone Kept Know Life Realize Rest Secret Strongest
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
There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Brave Many Way World
There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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Admit Between Confess Difference Excuse Involve Make Softening Thing
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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Again Embrace Ever Feel Gone Like Remind Same
Change, like healing, takes time.
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Change Heat Like Take Time
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Afraid Become Control Desperate Father Feel Halfway Impulsive Lost Mother Violent
“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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Eyebrow Know Raise Remind Shine Sun Tunnel Underground
But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Also Each Learn Mended Other
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Acknowledge Brave Other Strength

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.

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