"Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are."
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"There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity."
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"You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life."
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"Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true."
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"I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too."
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"Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating."
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"I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write."
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"Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you."
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"You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed."
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"I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all."
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"When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to."
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"And I provide much- needed eye candy."
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"I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself."
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"Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are."
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"How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?"
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"It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it."
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"And then the screaming begins."
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"Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave."
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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."
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"All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind."
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