"Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?"
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"You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist."
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"Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now."
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"People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
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"I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page."
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"Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right."
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"I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them."
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"He pushes his hair, soaked from the snow, out of his eyes. "So what are we going to do, break a window? Look for a back door?" "I'm just going to walk in," I say. "I'm her son." "You also betrayed her and left the city when she forbade anyone from doing that," he says, "and she sent people after you to stop you. People with guns." "You can stay here if you want," I say. "Where the serum goes, I go," he says. "But if you get shot at, I'm going to grab it and run." "I don't expect anything more." He is a strange sort of person."
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"Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it."
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"Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt"
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""I'll be your family now," he says."
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"i happen to enjoy categorization."
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"Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS"
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"I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth."
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"I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know it’s my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace."
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"Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you."
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"Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing."
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"though he does not touch me, he steadies me."
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"We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."
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"We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?"
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