I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
VERONICA ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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