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"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
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"Fear, she says, "is more powerful than pain.""
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"She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone."
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"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."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
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"Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite."
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"I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these."
Identity

"And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to."
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"She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love."
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"It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You."
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"I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, 'Dauntless,' 'Erudite,' 'Divergent,' "Allegiant,' or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us."
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"A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls."
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"Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
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"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
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"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
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