"Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion."
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"His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work."
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"So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile."
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"What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in."
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"Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules."
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"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."
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"You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches."
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"So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free."
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"I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either."
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"I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs."
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"Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously."
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"I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."
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"You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person."
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"Faction before blood."
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"In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life."
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"Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality - of humankind's inclination towards evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray."
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"But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control."
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"I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist."
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"Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are."
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"Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent."
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