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.
VERONICA ROTHDauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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I don’t want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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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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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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