Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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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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…there is power in self-sacrifice.
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I’ll say it one last time: Be brave.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.
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When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.
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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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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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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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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.
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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family.
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In ‘Insurgent’ we realise how large the world really is
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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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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I’m sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what’s wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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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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It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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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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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.
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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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Knowledge 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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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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