There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s all I can do.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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