Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
("Divergent")
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He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.
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I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
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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.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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