"Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them."
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"I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me."
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"Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special."
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"People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’"
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"No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity."
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"I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could."
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"Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest."
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"Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice."
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"You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward."
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"All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter."
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"You're more than Dauntless," he says in a low voice. "But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong."
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"I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?"
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"I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket."
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"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter."
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"Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing. But I can assure you that there is nothing to be afraid of, as far as we are concerned." As he speaks, his head tilts and his eyebrows lift in sympathy, and I understand at once why some people like him. He makes you feel that if you just placed everything in his hands, he would take care of it."
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"Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am."
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"What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness."
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"I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time."
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"His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us."
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"This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now."
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