Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
VERONICA ROTH…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate.
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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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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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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 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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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over 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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It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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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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