It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
VERONICA ROTHIt 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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
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We can’t be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can’t be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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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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