I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
VERONICA ROTHYou don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It’s my choice.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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That’s what love does. When it’s right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
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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.
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I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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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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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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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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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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