Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
VERONICA ROTHDesperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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