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Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

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Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

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Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

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My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it...more

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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."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of ...more

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Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at ...more

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I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

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I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughin...more

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She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.

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We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last peo...more

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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other op...more

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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

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

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Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces tog...more