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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.

Veronica Roth

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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Build Darkness Decide Even Laugh Laughter Light Remind Sometimes Trust
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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Dauntless Every Flaw Kill Mine Pride
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Away Ever Fear Lose Over Power Really Wonder
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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Air Breathe Close Corner Look Mouth Nail Remember replace Same Smile Tug
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Allow Both Least Like Little Myself Once Strong Weak While
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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Choice Define Destroy Doubt Transform
There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Always Important Something Understand
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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Alive Chose First Free Perfect Place Remind
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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Classmate Critic Get Hard Hear Internal Over Reality Sometimes Stuff Writer
Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Ask Being Mind Rude Say Sorry Use
Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Disguise Game Mission Past Suicide Wonder
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
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Away Grief Guilt heavy More
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Answer Away Book Come Goodness People Question Virtue
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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Again Empty Feel Grief Monster Space Stomach Use Writing
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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Always Damage Each Other Even Learn Life One Escape Since Young

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