It 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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You won,” Four mutters. “Stop.” I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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Resisting is worth doing.
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My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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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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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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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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I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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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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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 keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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