Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
VERONICA ROTHHis 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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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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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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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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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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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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