I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
VERONICA ROTHWhen 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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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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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Lies require commitment.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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 suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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