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.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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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 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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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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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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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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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