The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
VERONICA ROTHKnowledge 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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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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I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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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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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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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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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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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.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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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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