My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
VERONICA ROTHI have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.
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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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There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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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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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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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 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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn’t care how much money a person makes.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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