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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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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

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Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels ...more

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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.

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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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She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

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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 have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've ex...more

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If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.