We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
VERONICA ROTHMy mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to.
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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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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Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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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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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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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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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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The truth is… you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back…it hurts.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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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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