We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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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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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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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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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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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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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When 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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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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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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