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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.

Veronica Roth

A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Air Breathe Close Corner Look Mouth Nail Remember replace Same Smile Tug
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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Abnegation Break Difficult Else Embroidery Habit Installed Single Something Think Thread Tugging Work
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
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Believe Defend Shout Themselves Whisper
It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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Make Ordinary Place Shrink Strange Time
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
I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Country Curious Naturally People
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
I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Eat Force Go Long Lot Nap Take Think Unreasonable
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
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 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
In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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First Must Order Peace Trust
People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Discover Layer People Secret
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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Better Cry Feel Laugh Only Option Right Sometimes
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

Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.

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