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.
VERONICA ROTHPride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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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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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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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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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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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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