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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.

Veronica Roth

That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Be Could Love Make More Right Thought
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
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
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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Control Kill Thing Worst
Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Ask Being Mind Rude Say Sorry Use
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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Dauntless Every Flaw Kill Mine Pride
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
Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Being Brave Dauntless Fear Midst
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
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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Akk Come Emotion End Let Little never Out
My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Alone Could Even Mother Once Survive Told Want
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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Burden Choose Forgiveness Share Someone Wrong Wrongdoing Yourself
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

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.

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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.

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