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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Veronica Roth

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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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Being Everything Pretend Right Stand Still Stop True
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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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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Ever Everyone Everything Greater Involve Known Love Sake Something Sometimes
His 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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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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Alone Could Even Mother Once Survive Told Want
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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Believe Better Life Make Thing True
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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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Better Could Done Guilt Haven Maybe More Next Remind Time
Change, like healing, takes time.
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Change Heat Like Take Time
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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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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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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He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.
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Anyone Kept Know Life Realize Rest Secret Strongest
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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Are Important Interest People Remember World Writing
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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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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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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Brave Many Way World
I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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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

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