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- I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
- 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…
- What is it with you today?†says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms…
- Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.
- To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing…
- Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
- It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery.…
- We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out…
- Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,…
- That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.
- People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden…
- I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should,…
- Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is…
- I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as…
- Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
- What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.…
- A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter.…
- I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a…
- From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my…
- I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting…
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