How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
VERONICA ROTHShh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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