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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."
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"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
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"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
Loneliness
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
Risk
"I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again."
Romance
"I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready."
Bravery
"Human reason can excuse any evil."
Morality
"Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity."
Emotion
"Ingenuity requires creativity."
Innovation
"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."
Character
"Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes."
Memory
"The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite."
Knowledge
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