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Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him. — Veronica Roth

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I feel, as I look at him, that I am finally seeing him as he is, instead of how he is in relation to me. So how well do I really know him, if I have not seen this before? The — Veronica Roth

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Then he crosses the room in two long strides and touches his lips to mine. Their gentle pressure erases the past few months, and I am the girl who sat on the rocks next to the chasm, with river spray on her ankles, and kissed him for the first time. I am the girl who grabbed his hand in the hallway just because I wanted to. — Veronica Roth

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He pushes his hair, soaked from the snow, out of his eyes. "So what are we going to do, break a window? Look for a back door?"
"I'm just going to walk in," I say. "I'm her son."
"You also betrayed her and left the city when she forbade anyone from doing that," he says, "and she sent people after you to stop you. People with guns."
"You can stay here if you want," I say.
"Where the serum goes, I go," he says. "But if you get shot at, I'm going to grab it and run."
"I don't expect anything more."
He is a strange sort of person. — Veronica Roth

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...there is power in self-sacrifice. — Veronica Roth

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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men. — Veronica Roth

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Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me. — Veronica Roth

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Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. — Veronica Roth

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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. — Veronica Roth

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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be. — Veronica Roth

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Insane? No. Dauntless, Yes — Veronica Roth

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But I should have. I should have forgiven him. — Veronica Roth

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I have a theory that selfness and bravery aren't all that differnt — Veronica Roth

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It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat. — Veronica Roth

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To me, Tris has always seemed magnetic in a way I could not describe, and that she was not aware of. I have never feared or hated her for it, the way Peter does, but then, I have always been in a position of strength myself, not threatened by her. Now that I have lost that position, I can feel the tug toward resentment, as strong and sure as a hand around my arm. — Veronica Roth

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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. — Veronica Roth

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Its imposible to have real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves. — Veronica Roth

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Mockery is childish. It does not become you. — Veronica Roth

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Peter: Got that gun?
Tobias: No, I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.
Peter: Oh, shut up! — Veronica Roth

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I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them. — Veronica Roth

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I wish I felt like crying, because tears might bring a sense of release, but I don't. — Veronica Roth

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There is a wavering expression in hereyes, like she is a heap of leaves aboutto be scattered by the wind — Veronica Roth

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I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken — Veronica Roth

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I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important. — Veronica Roth

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don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me - they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I — Veronica Roth

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And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.
I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrenches me to my feet.
"What the hell was that, Stiff?"
"I ... " My breath comes in a hiccup. "I didn't-"
"Get yourself together! This is pathetic."
Something within me snaps. My tears stop. Heat races through my body, driving the weakness out of me, and I smack him so hard my knuckles burn with the impact. He stares at me, one side of his face bright with blush-blood, and I stare back.
"Shut up," I say. I yank my arm from his grasp and walk out of the room. — Veronica Roth

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Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and strains toward freedom. — Veronica Roth

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If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
Divergent- Since my mom has passed, this quote really spoke true to me. — Veronica Roth

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There are some advantages to being small. — Veronica Roth

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I didn't know it was possible to conquer fear in your body before you did it in your mind. That was when I knew I should be wary of him. — Veronica Roth

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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them. — Veronica Roth

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Is this because I'm a - " I start to say, but she presses her hand to my mouth. "Don't say that word," she hisses. "Ever." So Tori was right. Divergent is a dangerous thing to be. I just don't know why, or even what it really means, still. — Veronica Roth

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I don't agree with him. I would rather be dead the empty, like the factionless — Veronica Roth

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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more. — Veronica Roth

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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. — Veronica Roth

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I just want to thank you," he says, his voice low. "A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it." He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. "You never believed it," he says. "Not for a second. You always insisted that I was . . . I don't know, whole." I cover his hand with my own. "Well, you are." "No one has ever told me that before," he says softly. "It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known." Just — Veronica Roth

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A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality. — Veronica Roth

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In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives. — Veronica Roth

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Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don't know this because you've never experienced it, but Four without you is a much different person. He's ... obsessive, explosive, insecure ... "
"Obsessive?"
"What else do you call someone who repeatedly goes through his own fear landscape?"
"I don't know ... determined." I pause. "Brave."
"Yeah, sure. But also a little bit crazy, right? I mean, most Dauntless would rather leap into the chasm than keep going through their fear landscapes. There's bravery and then there's masochism, and the line got a little hazy with him. — Veronica Roth

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I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do. — Veronica Roth

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How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn? — Veronica Roth

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Leave her out of this"
"Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing — Veronica Roth

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There is a kind of inevitability in it, like it has always been waiting for me, maybe because I relish height while others fear it, or maybe because once you have seen the things that I have seen, there is only one frontier left to explore, and it is above. — Veronica Roth

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Just because they didn't shoot you all in the head doesn't mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave? — Veronica Roth

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I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes
new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these. — Veronica Roth

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Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of — Veronica Roth

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I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved. — Veronica Roth

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In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. — Veronica Roth

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His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. — Veronica Roth

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It's not a perfect situation. But when you have to choose between two bad options, you pick the one that saves the people you love and believe in most. You just do. Okay? — Veronica Roth

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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like. — Veronica Roth

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You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.'
'Yeah, I could,' he says. 'But I won't. We both know that.'
I do know that. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. He is afraid that he will not be able to put in that work, that he will squander those days, and that they will leave him worse off than he is now. And I understand that feeling - I understand being afraid of yourself. — 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. — Veronica Roth

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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions ... I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all. — Veronica Roth

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I'll be your family now." ~ Tobis 'Four — Veronica Roth

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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it.
Which should probably frighten me even more. — Veronica Roth

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I am brave, I am selfless, I am Divergent. — Veronica Roth

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I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. — Veronica Roth

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What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.
"Honestly?"
"Does now seem like the time for honesty?"
I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap. — Veronica Roth

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You have failed. You can't control me! — Veronica Roth

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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him. — Veronica Roth

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We are the Allegiant," the voice replies. "And we are many, yet we are no one. . . . — Veronica Roth

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I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either. — Veronica Roth

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This is where the factionless live. Because they failed to complete initiation into whatever faction they chose, they live in poverty, doing the work no one else wants to do. They are janitors and construction workers and garbage collectors; they make fabric and operate trains and drive buses. In return for their work they get food and clothing, but, as my mother says, not enough of either. — Veronica Roth

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I have never seen an Amity religious ceremony before. I am only familiar with the religion of my parents' faction, which part of me still holds to and the other rejects as foolishness - the prayers before dinner, the weekly meetings, the acts of service, the poems about a selfless God. This is something different, something mysterious. — Veronica Roth

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I'm going too," Peter says. "Unless you want me to tell David what you're planning."
We all pause to look at him. I don't know what Peter wants with a journey into the city, but it can't be good. At the same time, we can't afford for David to find out what we're doing, not now, when there's no time.
"Fine," Tobias says. "But if you cause any trouble, I reserve the right to knock you unconscious and lock you in an abandoned building somewhere."
Peter rolls his eyes. — Veronica Roth

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What combats powerlessness? Power. — Veronica Roth

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Never in my life did I expect to hold a gun, let alone fire one. It feels dangerous to me, as if just by touching it, I could hurt someone. — Veronica Roth

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Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually. — Veronica Roth

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Is this scaring you, Tris?"
"No," I croak. I clear my throat. "Not really. I'm only ... afraid of what I want."
"What do you want?" Then his face tightens. "Me?" Slowly I nod. He nods too, and takes my hands in his gently. — Veronica Roth

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He wanted you to be the small, quiet girl from Abnegation," Four says softly. "He hurt you because your strength made him feel weak. No other reason."
I nod and try to believe him.
"The others won't be as jealous if you show some vulnerability. Even if it isn't real."
"You think I have to pretend to be vulnerable?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes,I do." He takes the ice pack from me, his fingers brushing mine, and holds it against my head himself. I put my hand down, too eager to relax my arm to object. Four stands up. I stare at the hem of his T-shirt.
Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
"You're going to want to march into breakfast tomorrow and show your attackers they had no effect on you," he adds, "but you should let that bruise on your cheek show, and keep your head down."
The idea nauseates me. — Veronica Roth

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Two years ago," she says, "I was afraid of spiders, suffocation, walls that inch slowly inward and trap you between them,getting thrown out of Dauntless, uncontrollable bleeding, getting run over by a train, my father's death,public humiliation, and kidnapping by men without faces."
Everyone stares blankly at her.
"Most of you will have anywhere from ten to fifteen years in your fear landscapes. That is the average number," she says.
"What's the lowest number someone has gotten?" asks Lynn.
"In recent years," says Lauren, "four."
I have not looked at Tobias since we were in the cafeteria,but I can't help but look at him now. He keeps his eyes trained on the floor. I knew that four was a low number, low enough to merit a nickname,but I didn't know it was less than half the average.
I glare at my feet.He's exceptional. And now he won't even look at me. — Veronica Roth

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You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act. — Veronica Roth

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He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence. — Veronica Roth

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I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless? — Veronica Roth

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Hey! Peter!" I shout, my breaths turning to vapor. Peter stands by the doorway to Erudite headquarters, looking clueless. At the sound of his name - which I have told him at least ten times since he drank the serum - he raises his eyebrows, pointing to his chest. Matthew told us people would be disoriented for a while after drinking the memory serum, but I didn't think "disoriented" meant "stupid" until now. I sigh. "Yes, that's you! For the eleventh time! Come on, let's go. — Veronica Roth

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I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."

pg 287 — Veronica Roth

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I'm not sure when, or if, anything will ever get better, not sure if these wounds are the kind that can heal. — Veronica Roth

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I could have forgiven you, you know, " I say. "For trying to kill me during initiation. I probably could have."
We are both quiet for a while. I don't know why I told him that. Maybe just because it's true, and tonight, of all nights, is the time for honesty. Tonight I will be honest, and selfless, and brave. Divergent.
"I never asked you to, he says, and turns to leave. But then he stops at the door frame and says, "It's 9:24. — Veronica Roth

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I am not a desperate, unsteady child who throws his trust around. I am not damaged. — Veronica Roth

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I wince , but somehow I don't mind the pain ,I relish it. — Veronica Roth

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I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support. — Veronica Roth

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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free. — Veronica Roth

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They don't want people to listen, they want people to agree," I reply. "And you shouldn't bully people into agreeing with you. — Veronica Roth

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This is not a crisis, I told myself. You are alive. — Veronica Roth

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Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax- — Veronica Roth

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I didn't care about Suzao - in fact, I was planning to spit on his funeral pyre just to hear it sizzle - but — Veronica Roth

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Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious ...
Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out. — Veronica Roth

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So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile. — Veronica Roth

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And I provide much- needed eye candy. — Veronica Roth

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You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed. — Veronica Roth

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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game. — Veronica Roth

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They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes. — Veronica Roth

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Fear Doesn't Shut You Down, It Wakes You Up — Veronica Roth

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Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be."
"That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?" ...
"You've been paying close attention, haven't you?"
"I like to observe people/"
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar. — Veronica Roth

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To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery! — Veronica Roth

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Intelligence must be used for the benefit, and not to the detriment, of society. Those who use intelligence for their own personal gain or to the detriment of others have not properly borne the responsibility of their gift, and are not welcome in our faction. — Veronica Roth

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The man driving wears a hat, a beard, and a smile. — Veronica Roth

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Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think. — Veronica Roth

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I want her, in a way I haven't felt before, not just some kind of mindless physical drive but a real, specific desire. Not for someone, just for her. — Veronica Roth