Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
VERONICA ROTHThere 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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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