If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
VERONICA ROTHWe 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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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 am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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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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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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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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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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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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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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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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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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It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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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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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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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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I also don’t believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions…I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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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 feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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