What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHNature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Lies require commitment.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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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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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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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.
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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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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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 have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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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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