It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
VERONICA ROTHMom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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“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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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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