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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Veronica Roth

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.
VERONICA ROTH

Being Everything Pretend Right Stand Still Stop True
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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Certain Condition Direction Dozen Every Fraction Hard Learn Member Mind Most People Think Way
We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Again Familiar Feels Kiss Time
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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Away Between Cloth Everything Exactly Know Layer Moment Peel Separate Strip Want
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Burden Choose Forgiveness Share Someone Wrong Wrongdoing Yourself
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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Evil Good Itself Knowledge Power
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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Eyes Forhead Four Look Mutter Stare Stop Wide Wipe Won
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Acknowledge Brave Other Strength
I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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Again Bad Do Like Wonder Over Sick Start Thing Wrong
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Any Evil Excuse Human Important Reason Rely
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Believe Defend Shout Themselves Whisper
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.
VERONICA ROTH

Back Every Hurt Know Love Purpose Second Truth
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
VERONICA ROTH

Body Campfire Fire Fuel Inferno Rage
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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Abnegation Break Difficult Else Embroidery Habit Installed Single Something Think Thread Tugging Work
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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Distance Even Silver
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.
VERONICA ROTH

Always Around Aueezing Both Breathing Claw Feeling Grasp Monstrous Press Strange

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