What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
VERONICA ROTHKnowledge 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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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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Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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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 laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks. “I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind.
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But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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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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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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