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"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
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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."
Compassion

"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."
Identity

"He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life."
Trust

"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
Memory

"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
Knowledge

"Ingenuity requires creativity."
Innovation

"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."
Character

"When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."
Ethics

"Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break."
Faith

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
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"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
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"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."
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"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
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"If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies."
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"Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step, take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!"
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"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
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"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
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"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
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"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."
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