Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
VERONICA ROTHThere is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Choices can be made again.” -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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Not writing is as important as writing – go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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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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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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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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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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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.
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Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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