Ingenuity requires creativity.
VERONICA ROTHI 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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The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.
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Lies require commitment.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.
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