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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Mend
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Mended

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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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Fine, he says. Then I love you.
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