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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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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the c...more

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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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I just wanted 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 ...more

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But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

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I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never kno...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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Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

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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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I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

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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 bre...more

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I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely ...more

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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...more

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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