But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
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.
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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