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I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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tobias
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She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.
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Veronica Roth |
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Nothing else is all right." His whisper tickles my cheek. "But we are."
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What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.
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I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.
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Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. "There was cake?" I say, looking at my own plate, which is more sensibly stocked than Uriah's. "Yeah, someone just brought it out. Found a couple boxes of the mix in the back and baked it," he says. "You can have a few bites of mine." "A few bites? So you're planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?" "Yes." He looks confuse..
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Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
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Veronica Roth |
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A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
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Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris
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eurdite
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tobias-eaton
divergent
tris
tobias
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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
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Veronica Roth |
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Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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Veronica Roth |
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I think that are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the avarge person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that is put to the test, it all falls apart." I am crying now, nut I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, bec..
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Before I leave the bathroom, I pinch my cheeks hard to bring blood to the surface of my skin. It's stupid, but I don't want to look weak and exhausted in front of everyone. When I walk back into Tobias's room, Uriah is sprawled across the bed facedown; Christina is holding the blue sculpture above Tobias's desk, examining it; and Lynn is poised above Uriah with a pillow, a wicked grin creeping across her face. Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the ..
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Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know it's my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace.
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I think we've made a mistake," he says softly. "We've all started to put down virtues of the other faction in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."
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I don't know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something." "Those aren't the only reasons people do things for you," I say. "Sometimes they do them because they love you. Well, maybe not , but ..."
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Veronica Roth |
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I'll be your family now." ~ Tobis 'Four"
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love
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insurgent
tris
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It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar."
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When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it's beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.
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I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.
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The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says. "Wouldn't dream of it," I say."
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humor
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Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice."
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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
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Four wanders through the crowd of initiates, watching us as we go through the movements again. When he stops in front of me, my insides twist like someone is stirring them with a fork. He stares at me, his eyes following my body from my head to my feet, not lingering anywhere - a practical, scientific gaze. "You don't have much muscle", he says, "which means you're better off using your knees and elbows. You can put more power behind them."..
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Veronica Roth |
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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
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Veronica Roth |
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,
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Veronica Roth |
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He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back -- I to stare back. I stare back.
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Veronica Roth |
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Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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Veronica Roth |
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That is death - shifting from "is" to "was."
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Veronica Roth |
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My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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Veronica Roth |
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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Veronica Roth |
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Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
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Veronica Roth |
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It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths "peace"."
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.
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God, " I snap. "You don't want to have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?" "First of all, don't use that name like a weapon against me," he says, pointing at me."
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want ..
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I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this." He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, "But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are."
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It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.
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Veronica Roth |
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I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me.
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Veronica Roth |
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I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can't hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.
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Veronica Roth |
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8b989ac
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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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tris
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Veronica Roth |