"Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?"
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"If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries." "Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with the understatements now?"
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"The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes."
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"Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again."
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"To love someone in the spiritual sense is not based on how I want to love you; its based on what you want."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself."
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"In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future."
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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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"Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you."
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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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"Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already."
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"Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it."
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"I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead."
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"I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago."
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"He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe."
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"All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to."
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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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"To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise."
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"He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod."
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