"I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind."
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"How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?"
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"Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all."
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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve."
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"I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless"."
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"I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing."
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"I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important."
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"The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always."
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"I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!"
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"I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's."
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"I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do."
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"I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction."
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"I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe."
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"We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace."
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"Just do what you're supposed to."
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"Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked."
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"How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another."
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"I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it."
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"Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says."
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