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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoela...more

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We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wra...more

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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

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If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We j...more

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I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

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Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

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Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a ce...more

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But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut.

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Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

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The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.