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.
VERONICA ROTHBecause 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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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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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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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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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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