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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Veronica Roth

He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Apply Away Dog Look Rule Stare Submissive
Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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Challenge Choice Eye Look
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
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
I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Stop Want Yourself
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Away Grief Guilt heavy More
To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Between Find Place Think Want Wise
Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Desperation Make Person Surprise Thing
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
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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Call Eat Eternal Invincible Powerful Race
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
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Again Empty Feel Grief Monster Space Stomach Use Writing
There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Always Important Something Understand
Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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About Burts Fall Feel Flame Like Liquid Make Realize Something
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
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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Change Come Difficult Know Line Long Many Origin Slowly Stung Together Work

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

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