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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.

Veronica Roth

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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Dauntless Every Flaw Kill Mine Pride
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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Being Choose Honest Mean Say True Want
I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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Anything Believe Come Correct Depend Rack Transgression
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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Away Between Cloth Everything Exactly Know Layer Moment Peel Separate Strip Want
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Answer Away Book Come Goodness People Question Virtue
In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Insurgent Large Realise Really World
I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Answer Aptitude Atack Attack Dog Either Eyes Give Look Peace Question Remind Submission Test
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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Abnegation Break Difficult Else Embroidery Habit Installed Single Something Think Thread Tugging Work
Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Change Drastic Measure Require Sometimes
I think you’re still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Enough One Only Person Sharp Sharpenm Like Still Think
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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Always Around Aueezing Both Breathing Claw Feeling Grasp Monstrous Press Strange
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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Air Breathe Close Corner Look Mouth Nail Remember replace Same Smile Tug
When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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Classmate Critic Get Hard Hear Internal Over Reality Sometimes Stuff Writer
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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Caleb Everything Father Fireplace Help Homework Kid Mother Neighbour Peace Suppose
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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Allow Both Least Like Little Myself Once Strong Weak While
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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Armor Bare Everyone Feel Gone Realize Really Secret See Until Wore

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