There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
VERONICA ROTHHis 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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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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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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 think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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 feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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