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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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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

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I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone ...more

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone ...more

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The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

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

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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

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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 nothi...more

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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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It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not ...more

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We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so t...more

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

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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

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But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It i...more