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"I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."
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"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
Memory
"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
"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."
Knowledge
"I am selfish. I am brave."
Character
"Soft hearts make the universe worth living in."
Humanity
"At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free."
Peace
"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."
Writing
"I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."
Compassion
"I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"
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"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."
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"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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"To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid."
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"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."
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"Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another."
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"An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist."
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