“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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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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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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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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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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Change, like healing, takes time.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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