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.
VERONICA ROTHTo 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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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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.
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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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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