Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTHI want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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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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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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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there’s nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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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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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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