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"We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left."
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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
"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
Knowledge
"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."
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"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
"Why is your heart racing Tris?"
Emotion
"And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them."
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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"Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy."
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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."
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"To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!"
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"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."
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"Sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it."
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"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know hat I survived."
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"If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image."
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"It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy - you are fucking open to dead."
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"Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food! It was terrifying, man."
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